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This makes sense. Gotta wean people off chronology to sell them the "best" ads.
by dkarapetyan 11y ago
This makes sense. Gotta wean people off chronology to sell them the "best" ads.
- ntumlin 11y agoOr just leave it chronological and post an ad every few seconds.
- noer 11y agoTwitter has a chronological timeline* and still manages to show me relevant ads. *For Now
- theseatoms 11y agoAnd Twitter is worth $11 billion, versus Facebook's $315 billion. One of the two is clearly better at converting users to dollars.
- nissimk 11y agoI believe the algorithmic ordering is intended to optimize other variables such as "time on site," because if you stay longer they can show you more ads. It seems like the conspiracy stuff would be much harder to actually do, like manipulating the content to influence you to click on more ads.
- Jordrok 11y agoMaybe "conspiracy" is too strong a word, but I have no doubt that the key motivation behind all these algorithmic changes is to boost ad metrics rather than to better serve the users. (Free services, users, products, etc)
- jlappi 11y agoWhile I agree that there is a conspiracy element to it, research has been done into this area before by Facebook. Whether or not it's in use is a whole different can of worms.