Facebook Discusses
How Feed Algorithm Works Facebook's news - feed program leader has outlined portions of the company's latest algorithm for determining what is shown, including a patented system of predictive modeling.
Not exact matches
As the NewsWhip blog points out, in addition to the focus on video, Facebook has made a number of tweaks to its news -
feed algorithm that have also affected
how media content appears and whether it gets engagement or not.
Facebook controls what users see in two fundamental ways: Its news -
feed filtering
algorithm decides
how to rank various kinds of content to make the
feed more appealing, and a team of human beings flags and / or removes posts when they appear to be offensive or disturbing.
Programmers have, rather,
fed the computer a learning
algorithm, exposed it to terabytes of data — hundreds of thousands of images or years» worth of speech samples — to train it, and have then allowed the computer to figure out for itself
how to recognize the desired objects, words, or sentences.
There's the influence of the news -
feed algorithm, for one thing, which is poorly understood — primarily because the company doesn't really talk about
how it works.
Just as Facebook's changes to its News
Feed algorithm can cause huge swings in a website's traffic graphs, Amazon holds a lot of power to dictate exactly
how much money others can earn from standing on its shoulders.
The stat shows not only
how tough things are for publishers on Facebook, but also that things have gotten tougher — even before Facebook's latest news
feed algorithm tweak takes effect.
Facebook has made its news
feed algorithm more mindful of video, added public view counts to make people more mindful of
how popular video is on Facebook, and its execs have even predicted that Facebook «will be probably all video» in five years.
Pinterest's Smart
Feed algorithm looks at things like the number of pins and favorites on your pins to determine
how popular your Pinterest boards are.
Facebook's research team focused on the problem of political polarization, asking
how much their news
feed algorithm contributed.
The
algorithm tries to anticipate content that users will like based on criteria such as
how often users have clicked on links to certain websites in the News
Feed in the past.
Also, most dating sites use matching
algorithms that take in account variables like
how long you've been a member and your activity level to determine where you appear in someone's
feed.
With News
Feed ranking, Facebook's
algorithms look at available signals and make a set of predictions that help us to estimate
how meaningful we think
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