This carries over a little from Twitter. Using follower count as some sort of authority/popularity index on one hand but using it power a feature (the stream) o

This carries over a little from Twitter. Using follower count as some sort of authority/popularity index on one hand but using it power a feature (the stream) on the other hand. Facebook solves this by filtering the stream based on relationship level you have with the user (building out relevancy vector). You get to keep the status of being "a friend"(follower) without it affecting your news stream.