Playing the algorithm game
Can you really “cheat” the LinkedIn algorithm by hiding links in comments? Or is there something else at work?
Google seeks hidden gems, and YouTube polices AI
YouTube is policing AI, LinkedIn is getting personal — and so is Google?
LinkedIn, TikTok and the dawn of the algorithm wars
LinkedIn, the dull elder sibling of Facebook and Twitter, is slowly finding new relevance. But the war over TikTok points the way to social media's future.
TikTok
Weaning media off its social addiction
Kicking the social media traffic fix, plus links on the tricks of pseudoscience and the future of media.
Coronavirus: Facebook is becoming an unreliable source of traffic
As content moderators are sent home, AI tools are taking over their content policing job - and getting it wrong.
polarisation
Engaged Reading Digest: the unexpected face of polarisation
The assumptions many people make about social media, news consumption and polarisation may not be accurate. Prepare for a surprise…
X (Twitter)
How to fix your Twitter timeline
Here's one quick hack to make your timeline better (even if it might offend a few people…)
MailOnline
MailOnline takes brutal hit from Google algorithm update
A MailOnline SEO has admitted to a big traffic hit from a Google change.
algorithms
Domain hopping to beat the Facebook algorithm
Craig Silverman on a new technique some publishers are using to beat Facebook algorithm changes [https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/publishers-are-switching-domain-names-to-try-and-stay-ahead] : > “Publishers have found that their domains are often penalized by Facebook’s algorithm over policy changes that they don’t announce publicly. As a result you can see
algorithms
The LittleThings lesson publishers should be learning
The first major casualty of the Facebook algorithm change was announced last week: LittleThings was closing up, putting 100 people out of work. And, inevitably, they were a Facebook traffic-dependent publisher. Lucia Moses has written a great profile of LittleThings [https://digiday.com/media/live-algorithm-die-algorithm-littlethings-went-social-publishing-darling-shutting/] for Digiday: > CEO and
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Facebook asks publishers: are you local?
Ooops. He Zucked it again. For three weeks running now, Zuckerberg’s big blue monster is messing around with the Facebook and its relationship with news. This is an actual photo of audience engagement people reading the latest missive from Facebook [https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/01/news-feed-fyi-local-news/]: And
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Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are
Interesting – and quite important – experiment from The Guardian – exposing the right and left in the US to Facebook newsfeeds [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/16/facebook-bias-bubble-us-election-conservative-liberal-news-feed] from the other side of politics: > Tobias said that exposure to the other side made her realize how difficult it might