Boston, MA 06/04/2014 (wallstreetpr) – Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) changes its News Feed algorithm on and off to provide its users with the best of the experience. Lately, the company released a new algorithm for its News Feed and the major change spotted was that now the stories shared automatically from third parties will be less active or will have a lower ranking in the News Feed than the ones shared personally or manually by the users. FB made these changes because it had analyzed that many a times the posts generated automatically by the third party app are either spam or that the users did not much appreciate (i.e. like the stories) much.
Why was there a need for this change?
This is very obvious that anything shared personally by some user must be interesting for their friends, and other users in some sense and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) analyzed the same trend. They found that the stories which people share explicitly from the third party apps are more engaging and interesting than ones that are shared without any explicit action by the user. FB also stated in its statement that users were surprised, and a bit confused by the stories shared automatically by the third party app.
FB addressed this issue by tweaking its News Feed algorithm a little
To solve this issue, Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has tweaked its News Feed algorithm and now you will get more ranking for the stories posted explicitly by the users from the third party app. For example, now the posts, songs or album that are automatically generated when listening to Spotify playlist or artist will be less active than the ones which are manually shared by the users via Spotify to FB. This clearly means that in the near future you will see very less automatically generated post from third parties on your News Feed. The company also said that even in the coming time it will focus on explicitly shared stories over implicit one.
