Facebook redesigns the News Feed, adds real-time updates

Google tried to upstage Facebook on Tuesday with news that it was opening a amicable networking use Google+ to everyone.

But Facebook, that is formulation to launch a new media height and other vital developments this week during a annual developers discussion in San Francisco, is swiveling behind into a spotlight.

As Facebook and Google step adult their foe for eyeballs and dollars on a Web, Facebook is rolling out an updated chronicle of News Feed that gives priority to critical posts. If we haven’t visited Facebook for a while, you’ll see a tip photos and standing updates given we final logged in; if we record in several times a day, you’ll see some-more new news. The thought is to aspect a information that matters many to you.

“Now, News Feed will act some-more like your possess personal newspaper,” Mark Tonkelowitz, an engineering manager during Facebook, pronounced in a blog post. 

Facebook is also introducing a real-time “ticker” that streams your friends’ many new activity and encourages we to discuss with them about it.

“Ticker shows we a same things we were already saying on Facebook, though it brings your conversations to life by displaying updates instantaneously,” Tonkelowitz wrote.

Quickly delivering a many critical updates from friends is a goal. But comments to a blog post about these latest efforts were mixed, trimming from users angry that a amicable network doesn’t have a ability to decider what’s critical to them to users welcoming a changes.

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Image: Screen shot of Facebook’s latest chronicle of a News Feed. Credit: Facebook.