Social Media News: Facebook devalues third party automatic sharing & Twitter release Twitter Billboard Chart

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Facebook devalues third party automatic sharing

Facebook recently announce a major change to its News Feed Algorithm. Stories shared from third parties will receive lower ranking in the News Feed. It has been found that when a user posts content to the News Feed through a third party or an app it receives more activity than a post automatically generated via a third party. For example, when listening to Spotify the playlist automatically posts to your news feed receiving less ranking than a song being manually shared via Spotify to Facebook. In many cases it has been found that automatic posts from third parties will be marked as spam and that users feel confused about stories that are shared without their knowledge of actually sharing the content on their own. Penalizing automatic third party posts will allow for users to only see content that is interesting and relevant to them. Source

Twitter releases Billboard Twitter Charts

Twitter announced the release of Billboard Twitter Real- Time Charts. These four-interactive charts will track the most popular songs shared on Twitter in the United States. You can find the charts on Billboard.com and in print weekly. These four charts are using real-time to measure conversation about the volume of music conversation, ranking of most shared songs on Twitter in the U.S by up-and –coming artists, weekly ranking of most shared songs on Twitter in the U.S. by volume shares over a seven day period, and ranking of most shared songs on Twitter in the U.S. by up-and-coming artists ranked by the number of shares over a seven day period. Each week Billboard will premiere a video dedicated to the Billboard Twitter Trending 140 Chart calling the series “Real-Time Rewind.” This rewind will capture the important moments in music each week, the artists and songs that sparked movement on the chart, and a real-time chart snapshot of the top U.S. hits along with emerging tracks and artists that are being discovered. This new Real-Time Billboard Twitter Chart gives music lovers the ability to influence the Billboard chart and discover new artists. Source

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