News Feed highlights information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. The new layout, by contrast, created an alternative home page in which users saw a constantly updated list of their friends' Facebook activity.
Originally, when users logged into Facebook, they were presented with a customizable version of their own profile. On September 6, 2006, Ruchi Sanghvi announced a new home page feature called News Feed. Using a secret method (initially known as EdgeRank), Facebook selects a handful of updates to actually show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of 1500 updates they can potentially receive.
He concludes the app "seems to be ill conceived.The news feed is the primary system through which users are exposed to content posted on the network. If this app is for celebrities then WHY force them to follow another celebrity in order to set up this app?” to follow and then I hid his posts (sorry Robert!) I think that is a big flaw in the set up. The first person on the list I was given was George Takei (rolling my eyes.) I ended up choosing Robert Downey Jr. “When you install the Mentions App you cannot proceed further until you follow another one of their other ‘celebrity’ accounts. Shatner took to his Tumblr account to rant about the new app: One such notable figure who has been using Mentions is Canadian actor William Shatner of Star Trek fame who began using the app when it had an early rollout. According to Canadian Facebook spokesperson Meg Sinclair says there are tens of thousands of verified public figures globally on Facebook. The app also simplifies the posting of photographs, video and remarks and makes it easier for a person to join in the conversation on trending topics.Ĭanadians such as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau and rapper Buck 65 have verified Facebook pages. The new app tracks trending topics and allows celebrities to engage in live Q-and-A sessions with fans. You can get a “Verified” status – identified by a blue checkmark on the page – by invitation only from Facebook, which has not revealed how it identifies someone as a celebrity. However, while it can be downloaded by anyone, it is unusable unless you have a verified Facebook page or profile. Mentions, considered a rival to the way Twitter alerts its users whenever they are mentioned by other tweeters, is available to anybody through the iTunes store. The app – which had a limited release in late July – helps high-profile people see and respond to messages posted on the social networking site about them. The Facebook Mentions celebrity app has now been made available for download on iPhone in more than 40 countriesm making it possible to follow celebrities like William Shatner and Robert Downey, Jr.
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