Facebook Toys With Twitter-Style Feed Order For Posts About Real-Time Events | TechCrunch - 0 views
-
It’s internally testing “Chronological By Actor,” a new way to display updates about live events so they appear in order from most recent to oldest, surrounded by feed posts ranked by its traditional relevance-sorting. It’s not ready yet, but the algorithm test denotes Facebook’s keen interest in stealing Twitter’s real-time social media crown.
-
It revealed it would start publicizing News Feed algorithm changes in blog posts, as well as two changes that have already been rolled out: “Story Bumping,” which bumps stories you haven’t seen yet to the top of the feed, and “Last Actor,” which shows you more feed stories about the people you’ve recently interacted with or viewed the profile of.
-
If you want up-to-the-second information about what’s transpiring in a sports event or breaking news story, Twitter wins. Y
- ...3 more annotations...