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Facebook Actually Does Help Deliver News

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:54:55 +0000

Maybe Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s comparison of News Feed to a personalized newspaper wasn’t too far off. According to the Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2013 report, Facebook is a key way that news outlets such as The Huffington Post, The Daily Mail, and Yahoo reach their readers. The report notes that major U.S. news sites get an average of 9 percent of their traffic from Facebook, compared with 4 percent when measured 15 months ago.

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Facebook: Goodbye ‘Subscribe,’ Hello ‘Follow’

David Cohen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:46:10 +0000

In an effort to quell user confusion, Facebook’s service that allows users to see updates from other users who they are not friends with will now be referred to as “follow,” rather than “subscribe.”

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Facebook Testing Subscribe Feature For Pages

Justin Lafferty — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 18:47:06 +0000

Facebook users can currently subscribe to other users, as a way to read status updates but not enter into an invasive Facebook connection (Mark Zuckerberg has this setup). Now, Facebook is testing the subscribe feature for pages. But what would that do to likes?

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Facebook Adds ‘Subscribers Via Lists’ Link Under Subscribers Tab

David Cohen — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:51:51 +0000

Facebook users who have enabled the subscribe feature on their profiles now have a way to see if they are on any interest lists, as the social network added a subscribers via lists link under its subscribers tab.

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Polygraph Media Detects Analytics From Facebook Pages

David Cohen — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:43:19 +0000

The pool of Facebook analytics providers just had a little more water displaced from it, as Polygraph Media took the plunge with its Polygraph Reports offering.

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Don’t Self-Censor On Facebook: Audience Filter

Guest Writer — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:33:02 +0000

Today’s Internet serves many functions, operating as a public forum for self-expression, an intimate support group among friends, and even a platform for professional development. As your use of social networks such as Facebook grows in the professional context, the key is to not succumb to censoring yourself. Your peers, bosses, or prospective employers may deem it appropriate to tailor your online voice to a more conservative public, but won’t your friends wonder why you got so lame all of a sudden? Filter your audience instead.

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Newt Gingrich Upgrades To Facebook Timeline

Jennifer Moire — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:02:14 +0000

Newt Gingrich upgraded his Facebook profile to timeline, the first of the Republican candidates to make this move.

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Facebook Shows Pop-Up Profile Windows In News Feed

David Cohen — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:52:24 +0000

Although no one can agree on exactly when this started showing up on Facebook, pop-up windows appear when users hover over the names of friends, pages and places in their news feeds.

Hovering over the name of a friend results in a pop-up window that displays mutual friends, a friends button that enables users to change which groups that friend appears in, and a subscribe box that enables them to adjust their subscribe settings for that friend.

Hovering over Facebook pages for brands brings up a pop-up window with the number of likes for the page, as well as mutual friends who like that page.

And hovering over the pages for local businesses, results in a pop-up window featuring a map, the ability to get directions to the business, and mutual friends who like the business.

Facebook has not made any sort of official announcement about this specific type of pop-up window.

This feature parallels what happens when you click on an item in the ticker: a larger pop-up window opens to the left, showing the complete posting and accompanying thread.

Users: Are you seeing pop-up windows when you mouse over people’s names in your news feed?

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Facebook's Subscribe Button Works Best With Engagement

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:22:11 +0000

About an hour after we first posted about how U.S. media analyst Jim Romenesko questioned the quality of his subscribers on the social network, Facebook’s Journalist Program Manager Vadim Lavrusik showed us all how to ask a better question.

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Journalists See 320% Increase In Facebook Subscribers

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:11:43 +0000

A Facebook analysis studying journalists’ use of the subscribe feature finds that the group have experienced a 320 percent average increase in subscribers since November, 2011.

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10 Upgrades That Revolutionized Facebook This Year

Jackie Cohen — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:02:48 +0000

What a year Facebook has had, at least when it comes to upgrades.

Changes to the site in 2011 have improved engagement, safety and monetization.

That said, here are the 10 most significant improvements that Facebook made in 2011, not necessarily in any order.

1. Timeline

Most people on Facebook have yet to upgrade their profiles to timeline, but those who have are raving about the depth of content in this advanced profile.

2. Inline Privacy Controls

Facebook moved most of the privacy controls to locations next to where people share content on the site. This strategy has spurred more people to avail themselves of these features than ever before.

3. Subscribe

Many have called Facebook’s subscribe button an effort to emulate Twitter, but this profile feature is quickly becoming a must-have for people who want to present themselves as thought leaders.

4. Immune System

This nickname for Facebook’s nickname for its security technologies cropped up inthe media this year, but the term immune system really sums up the collective effect of the bold steps the social network has made to dramatically reduce the frequency of spamware, clickjacking and other digital maladies that used to crop up regularly. Some of the more significant moves have been:

Partnering with Web of Trust has enabled the site to identify and block posts that include insecure web addresses;
A social verification system provides a means of recovering lost passwords through trusted friends;
Log-in approvals send code to mobile devices so users can authenticate attempts to access accounts from unrecognized machines; and
Smart friend lists create groupings of contacts with things in common, all but forcing people’s hands to use this features for microsharing instead publicly posting everything for all to see.

5. GraphRank

Facebook has altered the method it uses for prioritizing content in the news feed on home pages. Although some people insist that the move from the old algorithm EdgeRank to the new one, GraphRank really has dramatically changed the content appearing on homepages — more targeted and engaging posts show up.

6. Ticker

The ticker has added movement to people’s homepages with the scrolling updates about all friends’ activity on the site, differing from the engagement-oriented news feed taking up the wider middle column.

7. Talking About This

Facebook’s revamped page insights include a really nifty metric visible to all: Talking about this. Showing visitors how many people are posting on Facebook about the page’s title may inspire more people to reshare content from that page.

8. Negative Feedback Metrics

Facebook has only just begun to test measurements of negative feedback on pages’ posts, which are based on what people put in their news feeds. This statistic has the potential to help page administrators greatly improve their content.

9. Sponsored Stories

Facebook’s best-performing type of advertisement, sponsored stories launched in January of 2011 and the social network subsequently created seven different variations on the promotion. All refrain an individual’s interaction with a brand to that person’s friends, the most popular variety telling people who likes the advertiser. The site plans to move these ads into news feeds starting next month.

10. Credits Incentives

This year Credits became mandatory for all applications that request payment in exchange for premium content, and developers that use the digital currency exclusively get a host of incentives that can help generate more income. These include:

Get balance, which shows individual users’ balances to developers;
Buy with friends, which encourages people to recommend purchases; and
Frictionless payments, which enables gamers or shoppers to pay for goods without leaving the application.

What do you think were the most important upgrades on Facebook this year, readers?

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Facebook Adds Subscribe, Smart Friend Lists To Mobile

David Cohen — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:07:46 +0000

Facebook added its subscribe and smart friend lists features to its apps for the iPhone and Android devices, and the mobile website.

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Facebook Debuts 'Subscribe' Plugin For Websites

Jackie Cohen — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:53:25 +0000

Facebook officially debuted a subscribe button for websites.

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Facebook Expands One Small Part Of Your Timeline

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:04:35 +0000

Facebook’s timeline profile hasn’t even been in beta for a full 24 hours — and only in New Zealand — and we’ve already noticed a couple of minor changes to the area between the cover image and the wall.

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Facebook Will Launch Subscribe Plug-In For Websites

David Cohen — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:29:49 +0000

Facebook will extend its subscribe feature across the Internet with the launch of a plug-in for all websites.

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