The ultimate guide to the Facebook Edgerank algorithm

EdgeRank is the name of the algorithm which Facebook uses to determine what appears in their users’ news feeds. The news feed is Facebook’s ‘Killer App’. There is a plethora of information available to Facebook users, and the newsfeed is the order in which it appears.

It determines which of your connections is the most important to you and thus appears most frequently, and which kinds of content should appear higher than others. For anyone seeking to market a product or service on Facebook it’s essential you understand how this algorithm works.

Reading this gave me a better understanding of how Facebook sorts the News Feeds, not so much for marketing purposes, but for my own sanity.

Facebook also gave me sort control once again. Thank the gods, I need shit sorted by date/time.

I have a real hard time with Facebook deciding what’s a Top Story and what’s not. It probably doesn’t help that I won’t assist them with machine learning by clicking the blue triangle.

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