Facebook announced a change in its algorithm news feed, που θα λαμβάνει υπόψη το χρονικό διάστημα που χρειάζονται οι χρήστες να διαβάσουν μια δημοσίευση από κάποιο χρονοδιάγραμμα. Το μεγαλύτερο κοινωνικό network, will use this information to deliver more interesting updates and news in the future.
Facebook news feeds often show irrelevant or non-essential publications, or updates from users who are not really your friends.
This is the issue that faces Facebook with the recent change in his algorithm. So from today, it will basically count the time users spend on reading a story and use this information to prioritize future updates it thinks are interesting.
Ο τρόπος που λειτουργεί ο αλγόριθμος είναι πολύ απλός. Όταν οι χρήστες αρχίζουν να μετακινούνται προς τα κάτω στον "τοίχο" τους, κάθε φορά που σταματούν για να δουν σε μια συγκεκριμένη ιστορία, ακόμη και αν δεν κάνουν comments, or share the time they spend reading the post will be taken into account.
One of the drawbacks is bad internet connection or mobile users who stop scrolling for a few seconds to deal with something else, rather they will give misleading results.
To prevent this from happening, Facebook will receive aggregated results from many different accounts, eliminating the extreme values of the metrics to get an overview of the opinions of many users.
This updated version of the algorithm will begin to have a visible effect in the next few days, and according to the company it won't change with anyone who the news is displayed from Facebook Pages.
