Facebook Master Algorithm
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Facebook Master Algorithm is the name given to Facebook's algorithm for determining what content to show in Facebook's reader (AKA News Feed shown on their logged-in homepage), also adopted and tweaked by Instagram for their reader (app home screen).
2017年10月22日 Christopher Mims: How Facebook’s Master Algorithm Powers the Social Network (archived) (original article behind paywall)
Similar Algorithms
Twitter Algorithmic Feed
(might deserve its own page) Twitter deployed an algorithm in 2016 to filter and re-order your reader view:
- 2016年02月05日 Buzzfeed: Twitter To Introduce Algorithmic Timeline As Soon As Next Week
- "Algorithmic Timeline" is a misnomer here — it's not a timeline, algorithmic or not, if it’s not in chronological order. That’s the time part of the word timeline. — Tantek Çelik
- 2017年03月05日 Slate: Twitter’s New Order: Inside the changes that could save its business—and reshape civil discourse
And previously (before algorithmic manipulation of your reader view)
- 2012年10月30日 Buzzfeed: Twitter Is A Truth Machine: During Sandy, the Internet spread — then crushed — rumors at breakneck speed
Andy Baio notes that one can use Twitter's advanced search to get a non-algorithmic timeline feed:
Lindy Developer has created an app to display the "old" Twitter timeline without the algorighmic-based feed: https://ohmytimeline.com/
Keith J. Grant created a gist to use "Adblock plus filters to remove the crap from twitter"
See Also
- https://twitter.com/mims/status/922101092313370629
- 2016年01月03日 Slate: Who Controls Your Facebook Feed
- 2017年10月23日 @mikejcasey: Facebook’s Master Algo should scare you. There’s something forebodingly Orwellian about having a single codebase shape our culture this way
- 2017年12月18日 @Hellchick thread: ... the story of my friend who died, and I didn't know because algorithms.
- 2018年01月11日 NiemanLab: Facebook drastically changes News Feed to make it "good for people" (and bad for most publishers) via John Gruber: Facebook Purportedly Changes News Feed to Make It ‘Good for People’
- 2018年02月15日 Katie Notopoulos : How I Cracked Facebook’s New Algorithm And Tortured My Friends (archived)
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bmvbaw/why-2016-was-the-year-of-the-algorithmic-timeline
- https://www.facebook.com/help/520348825116417