The News
Feed algorithm update improved users experience by providing a balance of content between Friends and Pages.
June 15, 2015: Facebook's News
Feed algorithm updated to prioritize time spent on a story above engagement.
Not exact matches
It's not exactly clear what caused the shift, but it's worth noting that in the end of June this year, Facebook
updated its News
Feed algorithm to prioritize the
updates your friends share over posts from other sources.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced yesterday that Facebook will revamp its News
Feed content ranking
algorithm to prioritize
updates from friends and family members.
Unfortunately, the latest
algorithm updates have made it harder than ever for businesses to gain visibility in the news
feed without paying.
One of the elements that the Facebook News
Feed algorithm considers is the type of
update that a page uses.
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, your organic reach might soon be affected by
updates to Facebook's News
Feed algorithms.
They responded by
updating the Facebook News
Feed algorithm to prioritize content from friends, family and groups, placing less emphasis on company posts and natives ads that don't spark engagement.
The problem is Facebook's
algorithm, which makes it extremely hard to get your Page
updates seen in your fans» news
feeds.
This is important because social networks use opaque
algorithms to determine which articles and
updates are displayed on your
feed.
Facebook ran an experiment on almost 689,000 users in which it tweaked the
algorithm running their news
feed to display slightly more or slightly less status
updates from friends that contained positive or negative words.
Facebook changes its News
Feed algorithm all the time, but Thursday's big
update is not like the others.
Instagram has announced an
update to its
algorithms to ensure that newer posts will appear more often in the
feed, following criticism that they would frequently get buried underneath older content.
Back in 2016, Instagram angered pretty much every user it had when it announced that it was
updating its
feed algorithm to put the posts it thinks you'll want to see at the top of your
feed, rather than just showing you all posts in reverse chronological order.
Earlier this year, Neowin reported on the fact that Facebook was going to
update its News
Feed algorithm to prioritise local news content.
When it comes to this new
algorithm update, the more your audience engages with your pictures, the more likely they'll display at the top of your followers»
feeds.