Comments on: Facebook responds to criticisms of newsfeed, says it’s algorithms are designed to keep users happy

By: Cairenn Rhys

Cairenn Rhys — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:13:51 +0000

Facebook is full of crap. I just wrote an article about my little experiment having a Page with their “algorithms”. :)

By: txpatriot

txpatriot — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:08:15 +0000

But I still think FB is lying about throttling posts in order to incent users to pay for the “promote” feature.

By: txpatriot

txpatriot — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 18:06:32 +0000

Mike that sounds great in theory but I doubt if it would work in practice, at least for some users.

I have over a thousand friends and several hundred pages I’ve liked, as well as a hundred or more groups. If I got every status update from every friend, page and group, my newsfeed would be inundated to the point that updates would zip by so quickly that I would not be able to read them.

So in my case, I don’t think seeing everything is practical. YMMV

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:35:39 +0000

I like the bit saying that News and Sponsored are separate. But if you read closely it guards that with “most engaging”

I always see two ads in my news feed. Perhaps FB demands that I click on like on every post of my friends so that I see all of their posts instead of their crappy ads.

By: Sapplause

Sapplause — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:59:55 +0000

We have build a free to to messuare the impact of posts and some additional stuff like likes and talked abouts. This is gigaoms data compared with techcrunch’s from last 2 weeks:

http://www.sapplause.com/show.html#!q=cGFnZT1HaWdhT00sODA2MjYyNzk1MSZjb3VudHJpZXM9VE9QNDUmbmFtZXM9R2lnYU9NLFRlY2hDcnVuY2gmc3RhcnQ9MTktMDItMjAxMyZlbmQ9MDUtMDMtMjAxMyZtZXRob2Q9YXBwbGF1c2U=

By: Mike Madden

Mike Madden — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:05:33 +0000

How about they just display everything in chronological order and not mess with that?

By: byron@bikehugger

byron@bikehugger — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 23:02:30 +0000

Suggest you look into fake like ads…and see what FB has to say about that. When they show you your friends have liked something from a paid advertiser when they have not.