How does Facebook decide what's top news?

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How does Facebook decide the order of events on the news feed?

In the Top Stories sorting mode. There seems to be some kind of hierarchy. Is it purely number of likes/comments? Relationship changes and profile pictures seem to take primacy over things like friends adding other friends, liking pages, and non-profile pictures. Please also mention appropriate machine learning algorithms that would be used to rank.

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Forget Facebook. How would you decide how to rank stories in someone's news feed? Suppose I give you...

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Whats with the old news Facebook?

Since updating the Facebook app on my android phone I've been getting random status update notifications on my phone. How can I disable this "feature"? The notifications are totally random, weeks can go by without getting one and then I'll...

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Oh geez, I got those for a while too, and they are totally infuriating. The setting to turn them off...

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How does Facebook decide what to put in "Top news" and "Most recent"?

Specifically, how they "choose" which updates to put in "top news" and "most recent"? Because I'm clearly seeing only a fraction of what my friends post.

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Edgerank. Here is an article we which further explains: http://www.likeable.com/2010/09/...

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news feed just shows random news from your friends. live feed shows you whats happenin in real time...

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Which type of Facebook person are you (only if you use facebook) 16 types?

1)The Lurker This person never posts anything or comment on anybody post but reads EVERY damn thing!!!! Weird asses!! 2)The Hyena They Hyena never says ANYTHING but other than lol rofl lol lmao lol at everything 3)Mr/Mrs POPULAR This person has over...

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The Lurker!:)

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Which person wins the argument on facebook?

So I post this on facebook: I wonder why facebook has turned to sadbook. The place where people go to share their sorrows, and downs in life. Why is it that people post more depressing stuff on facebook, then happy, or funny, or anything positive? Is...

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Yeah! I agree wit gina . person 1 wins but man why is it so long ;/

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If I set my privacy settings to "Only Me" when an app insists on having access to my Facebook feed, but I later decide that I want to share a specific post with my friends, how does Facebook manage that?

Does the post appear in the news feed as soon as I change the permissions? Or does it never appear in the news feed if it wasn't originally visible, but simply becomes visible on my timeline?

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I think visibility follows the second rule you mention in your question details. IIRC, each Facebook...

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Whats with all these pictures of cancer kids, etc on facebook lately?

lately ive been seeing in my facebook that people like pictures of kids/babies with cancer, genetic disorders, abortions etc and it shows the pics on my news feed. whats up with the sudden surge of pics, sure i feel sorry for them but i dont like to...

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Yeah. There's also been lots of animal abuse pictures.. Think about it this way: If I tell John about...

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What's a normal amount of time to go on facebook ?

so i used to be addicted to facebook ... i mean when im not in school , im on facebook ... CONSTANTLY and i feel like its ruining my life , so i decided to cut down ... i haven't logged in , in almost 3 days now , and i was wondering when i decide to...

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i say half hour MAXIMUM. You don't really need to spend an hour looking at peoples profiles do you?

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Whats happening to Facebook?

Are we really going to have to start paying for Facebook? I saw something that said: IT IS OFFICIAL. IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS. FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE ...show more

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This is malarky...trust me Facebook would have to be complete idiots to start charging for it. Especially...

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