algorithms
The LittleThings lesson publishers should be learning Paid Members Public
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
Facebook asks publishers: are you local? Paid Members Public
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
Facebook's not the filter bubble, we are Paid Members Public
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
Understanding Facebook's quasi-journalistic trending algorithm Paid Members Public
Facebook fired the human journalists working on its trending section (see posts passim [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/05/dont-be-a-journalism-algorithm.html] ) and replaced them with algorithmic journalists [https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/29/facebook-fires-trending-topics-team-algorithm] . It went…uh…well: > Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending
Is Facebook's algorithm a bit… rubbish? Paid Members Public
The sheer power of Facebook’s news feed is not a matter of debate – especially for publishers. But Om Malik makes a different challenge in this thoughtful piece for the New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/facebooks-news-feed-often-changed-never-great] : > However, every time Facebook’s news feed, introduced almost a
Watch: Nice newsfeed you've got there. Shame if something happened to it. Paid Members Public
Don't be a journalism algorithm Paid Members Public
Gizmodo‘s Michael Nunez delved into the lives of Facebook’s contract journalists [http://gizmodo.com/want-to-know-what-facebook-really-thinks-of-journalists-1773916117] in a well-shared piece: > Over time, the work became increasingly demanding, and Facebook’s trending news team started to look more and more like the worst stereotypes of a digital media content
Twitter brings the algorithm to all Paid Members Public
Twitter has gone all in on that algorithm [http://thenextweb.com/twitter/2016/03/17/twitter-quietly-turned-new-algorithmic-timeline-everyone/] You’re now getting a Twitter timeline with added algorithmic sorting by default: > The algorithm now appears to be enabled by default across the social network, with users reporting that the company started
