Face book changed its trending algorithm

FACE BOOK CHANGED ITS TRENDING ALGORITHM

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 Face

book is the largest news aggregator on the planet right now.

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This means more people use Face book to read about news, than any other news platform.

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The concept of trending is a popular way to keep track on news on both Twitter, as well as Face book.

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Also, Face book uses a very clean and sophisticated way of placement of the foresaid news on the right side of the homepage.

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What happened now?  In a move to reduce human impact on what’s trending, Facebook has automated some algorithms that will decide what’s trending thus removing the human element in deciding the same.

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just see the keyword of what’s trending, and not a human written summary/explanation of what it is and why it’s trending.

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What’s good about it?  For starters, lesser human involved in deciding what’s trending means, that there’s significantly reduced chances of bias.  This removes the chances of error in someone typing out the details about the trends, because now you can just browse through what actual users have written on a topic, instead of some editors deciding it on behalf of Face book.

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What’s bad about it?  Face

book has essentially shrugged of the fractionally small amount of original content it was generating.

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removing a 25-odd word summary of the trending topic, now everything on Face book is entirely user created content services.

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wouldn’t have hurt Face book to contribute a bit of its own take on a topic either.  The new style just looks extremely bland.  Users unintentionally end-up reading about trending news topics before – now only those topics that interest a user would be clicked.

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