Facebook starts calculating the time it takes to read the articles to improve the presentation updates

Facebook today announced a new update, said it aims to improve the quality of content visible to the user on the main News Feed his thanks to the new amendments that will offer updates and news most attractive to the reader.

Facebook will begin calculating the time spent by the user to read the articles within your browser application on smartphones, and will take advantage of it to display more content similar within a user's timeline. The company said it previously relied on the user admirable publications or add comments as a sign of admiration for her, but it is reported that many people care to read and follow links or certain updates without doing admirable or comment on them, and here comes the adoption of reading time an additional indicator to pay attention to the quality of the content supply helps Facebook in display updates and links similar and most interesting.

Facebook said it has also to diversify the proposed articles to show a wide range of sources, in response to feedback from users who complained of the emergence of a lot of articles successive from the same source within their line time, and said that it will show fewer own the same source updates.

Finally, the company said that these changes will not lead to any significant changes for the pages, and noted that some pages may witness a slight increase in emerging, while other pages may witness a slight decline. And advised Facebook page owners to review its catalog which offers a range of tips and proper practices for pages.