The News Feed — in the center column of your home page — is a list of stories from the people and pages you follow on Facebook. 40% of users’ time on Facebook is spent on the News Feed. When a user logs in, there are normally many more posts than can fit in their…
There are Facebook ad’s in the right margin of the page and there are “promoted posts” that show up in users’ news feeds. Here’s a study that shows that if a Facebook page owner makes a post on their page and then pays to promote that post, the post will show up in the targeted…
Link: Facebook changes Like button to act like Share on third party sites, publishes story “When users click the Like or Recommend button on a third-party website or within a Facebook app, it now publishes a full news feed story instead of just a one-line Recent Activity story. Previously, full stories with headlines, thumbnail images,…
Link: Facebook “Unlike” Button Comes to the News Feed “Facebook quietly introduced an ‘Unlike Page’ button into its News Feed recently, which allows users to opt-out of receiving unwanted messages from pages they had previously said they ‘liked.’ “ This has implications for page admins and marketers (and users). by Sarah Perez on ReadWriteWeb (@rww)
Link: Experiment Uncovers 10 of Facebook’s Biggest Secrets “How does the social media giant decide who and what to put in your feed? Tom Weber conducts a one-month experiment to break the algorithm, discovering 10 of Facebook’s biggest secrets.” “… the algorithms Facebook uses to decide what news to pass along [or to hide] can…
