Facebook this week will begin to publicly roll out the option to hide Likes on posts across both Facebook and Instagram, following earlier tests beginning in 2019. The project, which puts the decision about Likes in the hands of the company’s global user base, had been in development for years, but was deprioritized due to […]
Despite its issues, and there are many, Facebook remains today s main digital public square. Politicians and journalists gravitate toward Twitter, Gen Z loves Snapchat and TikTok, and Facebook fills in the gaps everywhere else.
A few years of scandals have yet to make much of an impact on Facebook s bottom line. In the US and Canada, it had its best-ever quarter for ad revenue in Q4 2020, according to Statista. Monthly active users on the platform in the US/Canada continue to go up. Facebook is not synonymous with the internet, (despite its best efforts), but its website and apps offer a bevy of personalization options. Read on to awaken your inner social networking guru.
How the News Feed Algorithms Work on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram
You re connected with hundreds of people maybe even thousands on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. But when you log in to each of these social networks, it s likely that you don t want to be bombarded by every single update from every single connection. That d be pretty overwhelming, wouldn t it?
That s how the folks from each of these social networks feel and they ve done plenty of user research to validate that feeling. In fact, that s exactly why the news feeds and the algorithms behind them exist.
All three of today s most popular social networks have gravitated toward an algorithm-based feed in the effort to create better experiences for their users. The trouble is, each algorithm works differently. What s worse, they re constantly changing, making it hard for marketers like us to keep up.
(Pocket-lint) - Facebook is introducing a Feed Filter Bar feature that will give you more precise control over your news feed. It basically lets you see posts chronologically - or by most recent, in the order they were posted - by simply toggling away from its usual algorithmic feed.
Technically, the company has offered users the option to sort feeds by “most recent , but it buried it in a settings menu. Facebook also launched a Favourites feature last October that allows users to select up to 30 friends and pages so that Facebook will display posts from them in a separate feed. Now, Favorites and Recents are front and centre - at the top of the news feed in separate tabs.