Mark Zuckerberg chimes in on Facebook’s trending topics

Posted on 13/05/2016 by Richard Lawler

The swirling debate over how Facebook chooses stories for its trending topics section -- and whether it is muffling stories from politically conservative sources -- refuses to go away, and now the company's leader has spoken up. In a post on Facebook...

Facebook lets news organizations broadcast your trending topic discussions

Posted on 09/09/2013 by Daniel Cooper

Anyone else think that Twitter's love affair with TV has gotten those down in Menlo Park a little scared? Facebook has announced that broadcasters like CNN, NBC and Sky can now gain direct access to your public wall posts concerning trending topics and embed them in their shows. That means that your insightful or controversial opinions on Shark Week might be sharing screen time with Al Roker without your explicit say-so. News organizations will also be able to generate real-time infographics to gauge the state of the nation and show, to an unprecedented level of detail, just how many of you care about twerking at any one time.

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, Facebook

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Source: Facebook

Facebook unveils Trending Topics, makes Graph Search available everywhere in US English

Posted on 07/08/2013 by Jon Fingas

Facebook must be a little envious of Twitter's ability to seize on trends -- it just started experimenting with Trending Topics, a Timeline card that shows the hottest subjects on the social network. Users can tap a trend to see both public comments and posts, whether or not the contributors are friends. The service is only being tested with a small number of those using Facebook's mobile website right now. If you're too impatient for that, the company has a consolation prize: Graph Search is now available to everyone visiting the site in US English, regardless of where they live. The expansion comes with the end to a handy privacy tool that lets members see who can search their Timeline, but Facebook claims that few have been using this feature -- we shouldn't miss it too much.

Filed under: Internet, Facebook

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Via: TechCrunch

Source: Facebook Newsroom, AllThingsD

Bing news search now shows related topics and personalities

Posted on 24/05/2013 by Steve Dent

Microsoft's Bing may be a boy among men in the search-engine wars, but that's not stopping it from piling on new features. The latest are in its news search, where it just added a "trending topics" carousel that shows timely info in the same category as your query (see the above image), along with a sidebar that displays personalities "you might also like." Clicking on either will bring up further news results, and Bing also said it's now extended the article index several years back in time compared to the curt two-week period it had before. It's an interesting change-up over Google's Knowledge Graph, and Microsoft needs all the help it can get in search, given recent survey results.

Filed under: Internet, Microsoft

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Source: Bing blog

Twitter updates iOS and Android apps, lets users see what’s trending around the world

Posted on 02/05/2013 by Michael Gorman

Twitter's developers are a busy bunch, (allegedly) working on an app for Glass and updating code for Macs in the last week. Today, they released yet another round of new software for iOS and Android, bringing some new functionality along with the requisite bug fixes and unnamed "improvements." After updating, both sets of users will be able to see trends from around the world, as opposed to just those happening in the immediate area.

Additionally, iOS users can now invite friends to join Twitter from within the app -- in case anyone still knows an unfortunate soul who's not already pecking out 140-character missives -- and both author and retweeter names will be included in replies to RT's. Meanwhile, Android users also received easier access to swap between accounts and change settings using the menu button. If you haven't grabbed the update already, well, you know the drill, your download awaits.

Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Apple, Google

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Via: Phonescoop

Source: App Store, Google Play

MIT prof and student discover algorithm for predicting trending Twitter topics

Posted on 02/11/2012 by Ben Gilbert

Predicting the future of Twitter's trending topics is, as of right now, an impossibility. But two folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology may have cracked the code with an algorithm they're saying predicts -- with 95 percent accuracy -- the topics that will trend in the next hour and a half. The prediction has even been calculated as high as four to five hours ahead of time with the same level of accuracy. Not too bad!

Of course, beyond impressing friends with the predictions, the algorithm has direct implications for the likes of Twitter itself -- being able to sell ads against trending topics could benefit the social media company enormously in its ongoing quest to monetize. At any rate, it's distinctly less dangerous sounding than the last idea we heard involving Twitter and predictions. The algorithm will be presented next week at MIT's Interdisciplinary Workshop on Information and Decision in Social Networks, should you wish to dig into the nitty gritty of the math behind the madness.

Filed under: Misc, Science, Software, Alt

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