Publish a list of sites Facebook checks for trends

ByAndy Wright

A person who calls on "former contract employee of Facebook"News picked up from maintenance is excluded from topics pickup of "trend" function provided on Facebook (English version)We disclosed a list of sites that Facebook actually uses for checking "trends" that Facebook is "generating by algorithm, not human input."

Information About Trending Topics | Facebook Newsroom
http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2016/05/information-about-trending-topics/


According to Justin Osoowski, Facebook's Vice President, the trend feature was added in 2014 separately from personal news feed, so that people can interact through topics of interest. What goes into the trend is not human power, but it follows Facebook's own algorithm. Although it was said that "the maintenance-oriented news has been eliminated" in the previous exposure, Mr. Ossofsky is aimed at providing valuable experience for service users, arbitrary political factors It excludes because it excludes because it contains it, explains.

Regarding this "topic entering trend", it is said that RSS of the external site is used so that it can touch the latest topic as quickly as possible. The list is the following PDF file.

Rss-urls.pdf
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The list is set to "country name" "category" "RSS URL". The upper one is American sites, followed by Canada, India, UK, Australia. Categories are "general" "politics" "economy" "health" "science" "sports" "technology (IT)" "entertainment" "games" nine.


The material that The Guardian was offeredSo, whether you are looking at expansions other than the English version, Brazilian, Spanish, Portuguese, Mexican and other Latin American ones are included as data on sites other than English-speaking countries.


The topic itself is picked up from the site included in this RSS list, but it is necessary to decide "which one to pick up". Mr. Osofski explained, "I am using algorithms, not manpower," but what kind of algorithm is "What topics will be taken up at multiple sites is certainly an important topic". Therefore, it is confirmed that at least three sites out of over 1,000 sites included in the list below are picked up.

Media1k-domains.pdf
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The list is arranged in ascending numerical order of alphabetical domains. Those who are not famous in Japan are not so famous, but ...


IT-related news siteArs TechnicaYaAsahi Newspaper Digital (asahi.com),ASCII.jpAnd so on. GIGAZINE was also included in the back of this.


Although it is not a news site,ImgurWell as.


Although topics are picked up in this way, there are differences in favorite topics by individuals, so further optimization will be done for each individual from here.

By the way, although it is not done to remove specific topics on the Facebook side, for the sake of processing by algorithm, toy 'LEGO' and movie 'LEGO movie' are summarized as the same topic Because there are things, it is said that there is a case to create a new topic ID and to change ID.

In addition, Facebook has taken seriously the appeal "this particular topic has been removed", and at this time, although evidence that the trend was manipulated has not been found, it has further stated that we will continue the in-house investigation I will.