{"id":149229,"date":"2015-12-10T09:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=149229"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:40:40","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T07:40:40","slug":"facebook-testing-news-feed-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/149229-facebook-testing-news-feed-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook testing News Feed update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2015\/12\/news-feed-fyi-continuing-to-build-news-feed-for-all-types-of-connections\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook announced<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>it is testing an update to its News Feed, aimed at improving the experience of users with slow Internet connections.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook currently retrieves stories for each person when someone loads their News Feed. However, most people don&#8217;t scroll through all stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the past, if you were on a poor Internet connection or had no connection, you might need to wait for stories to load when you opened News Feed,\u201d said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now testing an update in which we look at all the previously-downloaded stories present on your phone that you have not yet viewed, and rank them based on their relevance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also factoring in whether the images for the story are available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis way we can immediately display relevant stories you haven&#8217;t seen yet, instead of showing a spinner while you wait for new stories.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When Facebook receives new stories from the server when you&#8217;re back online, it loads and ranks those stories normally.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook is also testing improvements to keep these stories up to date throughout the day by periodically retrieving new stories when you have a good connection.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Facebook<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/148557-facebook-taking-on-google-and-younow-with-live-video.html\">Facebook taking on Google and YouNow with live video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/109742-facebook-wants-youtubes-stars.html\"><strong>Facebook wants YouTube\u2019s stars<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is testing an update to its News Feed, aimed at helping those with slow Internet connections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":140768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,161,34481],"class_list":["post-149229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-facebook-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149297,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149229\/revisions\/149297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}