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Title: How Messenger chats factor into what you see in Facebook's News Feed Post by: HCK on March 26, 2015, 03:00:11 am How Messenger chats factor into what you see in Facebook's News Feed
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Haven't seen many posts from some friends lately on Facebook? Perhaps you need to reach out directly to them.</p><p> How often you chat with someone using Facebook's Messenger app is a signal the company uses to determine how to place posts in your feed. If you haven't chatted with someone in a while on Messenger, and then you start chatting again, posts from that person might appear higher in your news feed.</p><p> That was one piece of information shared by Facebook engineers during a session Wednesday during the company's F8 conference in San Francisco.</p><p> The algorithm Facebook uses to rank posts in people's news feeds is a complicated one, and it’s always in flux, but the session, titled “How News Feed Works,” shed light on it.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2902192/how-messenger-chats-factor-into-what-you-see-in-facebook-news-feed.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Messenger chats factor into what you see in Facebook's News Feed (http://www.macworld.com/article/2902192/how-messenger-chats-factor-into-what-you-see-in-facebook-news-feed.html#tk.rss_all) |