Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Sorry, you’ll now see less text posts from Facebook pages

Facebook has revealed through its Product Manager, News Feed Ranking, Chris Turitzin in a blog post that users of Facebook will see less of text updates from pages and more text updates from their friends. It was also revealed that other types of contents from pages could get more rank in the news feed than before.

We are learning that posts from pages behave differently to posts from friends and we are working to improve our ranking algorithms so that we do a better job of differentiating between the two types.” he revealed in the blog post.
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He further revealed that experiments by the site engineers revealed that seeing text posts from friends encouraged users to update their statuses more. He revealed that there were 9 million more status updates from users daily as a result of this.
In fact, in our initial test when we showed more status updates from friends it led to on average 9 million more status updates written each day.” he said.
He stated that posts which had links embedded in them got less activity than a link-share which included a picture and a preview from the post. However, he didn’t state specifically what pages should post more frequently.

Many Page owners often ask what kind of content they should post. This is difficult to answer, as it depends on who your audience is and what they want to see.” he explained.

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