Sentences with phrase «news feed experiment»

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Emotions are running high over an experiment where Facebook manipulated news feeds to see how users» emotional states would be affected.

Two problems dogged the experiment however: Traffic patterns were unpredictable — an early manifestation of the News Feed algorithm problem — and it spooked users by showing people in their social graph what they had been reading.

June 2014 — Facebook data scientists publish a study detailing the results of an experiment on nearly 700,000 users to determine whether showing them more positive or negative sentiment posts in the News Feed would affect their happiness levels (as deduced by what they posted).

As TechCrunch reported when news of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News Fnews of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News FNews Feed.

We are very concerned as news about feed testing will start this year and that the harvest will be used in these feed experiments.

The furore over an experiment in which Facebook researchers attempted to manipulate users» emotions via their News Feed, albeit only slightly, highlighted the extent of that power.

To expand the experiment, the team will recreate a person's profile based on their likes, comments and other Facebook activity and then see if they can detect patterns in what their News Feed shows them.

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg has apologized for an experiment that manipulated more than 600,000 users» news feeds in 2012.

While Reddit is experimenting with the «open source journalism» that lets users create and update blog - style feeds in real time, not all of the experimental modes are so life changing as sharing the news of disasters worldwide.

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For one such experiment, conducted in the three months prior to Election Day in 2012, Facebook increased the amount of hard news stories at the top of the feeds of 1.9 million users.

In controversial experiments, it has proved it can alter people's moods or their likelihood of voting by tweaking their news feeds.

It was as if Facebook didn't want users to know it had been messing with their news feed this way — though the company says it was only trying to protect these findings so Messing could publish an academic paper based on this experiment.

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.

As TechCrunch reported when news of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News Fnews of that experiment first broke, to impact users» moods, Facebook showed them less positive posts in their News FNews Feed.

Facebook has announced that it is ending its Explore Feed experiment and has concluded that users don't want a secondary News Feed to view posts from Pages.

In January 2014, Facebook revealed its Creative Labs initiative designed to build single - purpose mobile apps and experiment with new functionality starting with Paper, and stylized standalone home for News Feed.