What influences the news feed

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In fact, writes The Wall Street Journal, Facebook has been using various algorithms to compile its news feed since its inception in 2006. The social network tries to show the most relevant publications, that is, it tries to guess what the user would like to see.

How they assure On Facebook, if you show all the posts in a row in the feed, it will look crowded. Of the more than 1,500 posts that a user could see each time they visit Facebook, the feed shows about 300, told Brian Boland, head of marketing at the company. The importance of status is influenced by100 thousand factors.

The company does not disclose the algorithm for generating the news feed, but something is known about it.

Who, what, and when. Facebook takes into account who posted food and beverage email list the post and what it is: a photo, a video, or a regular status. In your feed, you will see posts from those you pay more attention to. The more often you read someone's posts, the more often they will be shown to you.

Popularity. The popularity of posts is calculated based on the number of comments, shares, and likes. Posts that other users have marked as offensive or hidden from their feed are less likely to be shown to you.

Time. Facebook shows not only statuses that were recently published. If the algorithm considers that an old publication is related to a trending topic, then it they'll show it anyway in the news feed.

Comments. It is known that the social network analyzes comments left, at least those written in English. If many congratulatory comments are left on your post, Facebook will decide that an important event has happened in your life and will show the post to your friends. It is unknown whether this works for Russian-language comments.