Twitter patents and other publications reveal likely aspects of how tweets become promoted in the timeline feeds of users. Some of Twitter’s timeline ranking factors are very surprising, and adjusting ...

An Israeli biotech company recently said that a study has endorsed what it describes as a new risk factor for heart disease as analyzed by the company’s proprietary algorithm. The predictive power of ...

Many factors can affect rankings after a core algorithm update. It’s not always about the helpfulness of content, there are other factors that can play a role in why the algorithm changed and ...

Facebook announced on Thursday that it will start using time spent reading or viewing content on third-party pages as a factor in its news feed ranking algorithm. The length of the content in question ...

Instead of holding criminal defendants on cash bail, courts around the United States are increasingly using algorithmic risk-assessment tools to help judges decide if a defendant should be jailed or ...

If you do Facebook marketing, one thing that you might want to understand is the Facebook algorithm. The Facebook algorithm helps make sense of the huge number of posts that people and businesses ...

Facebook Profile Page, 2014-2015. Facebook updated both the newsfeed algorithm and the privacy settings.Courtesy of Alex Fitzpatrick/Facebook There are two very important rooms that will help ...