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Another News Feed rule change coming this week
January 20th, 2008
As part of the user experience improvement program (i.e. aggressive developer marketing crackdown) announced last week, Facebook is making another change to the way applications can publish stories to users’ feeds this week.
Facebook developer Ari Steinberg writes that developers will soon no longer be able to publish Mini Feed stories for a user if they are not the active “actors” in the feed story. For example, “Justin gave a present to John” would be an acceptable story to publish on my Mini Feed, but “John was given a present by Justin” would NOT be an acceptable story to publish on John’s Mini Feed. This change will eliminate a certain class of feed items that many users perceived as spammy.
Facebook is giving developers a 1 month transition period to remove passive feed items from their code, but is taking a more aggressive tone to the transition than they have previously. Steinberg writes, “Starting 9am Pacific time Tuesday 22 January we may contact you, or in severe cases initiate an enforcement action, if your stories are not complying with the new policy, especially if the volume of non-complying stories is high.”
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January 20th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I guess I’m missing how this means anything in terms of “spam.”
Up next: All stories must follow AP style guide…
January 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
so…will the photo application no longer say justin was tagged in 9 photos?
January 21st, 2008 at 3:13 am
Interesting post as ever Justin.
I read the change a bit differently, as meaning that I (being neither Justin nor John) would not have the story appear in my News Feed as I’m not one of the participants…
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January 22nd, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Subjects and neither their direct or indirect objects. I follow…
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:52 pm
Sounds like the only change is from passive voice to active voice. Not sure how that removes spam.
January 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 am
Sounds like a great improvement.
January 24th, 2008 at 9:50 am
So . . . Facebook will lead by example and change their “Bilbo has received a Gift” newsfeeds?? That’d be great.
(As stated by the facebook platform people: “our apps have no advantage over your apps . . . we’re trying to build a level playing field”) A bit hypocritical otherwise.