Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines 50
An anonymous reader writes: The BBC, BuzzFeed, NBC, The New York Times and National Geographic are among some of the publishers which will post news items directly to a Facebook user's timeline thanks to a new feature called Instant Articles. Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, says the program will allow publishers to “deliver fast, interactive articles while maintaining control of their content and business models.” Under the terms of the plan, publishers can sell and embed ads in the articles and keep the revenue, or allow Facebook to sell ads. Publishers will also be allowed to track data and traffic with their own analytics tools.
Good luck with that ... (Score:5, Insightful)
If publishers start posting their stuff direct to people facebook pages, I hope they're prepared for an endless stream of profanity laced responses from people who don't necessarily want that.
Careful what you wish for, you might not like the results.
Re:Good luck with that ... (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Good luck with that ... (Score:4, Funny)
That's 'coz nobody uses Google+.
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It looks like it just a means of hosting content directly on Facebook. I don't think this means that content will stuffed into the newfeeds of people who didn't ask for it or auto-posted to the walls of those who did. Both would be very bad.
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Adult men should not be on Facebook.
In other words, (Score:1)
Faced with plummeting usage, Facebook turns to Established Old School Media.
What could possibly go wrong?
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I'm not sure when this 'plummeting usage' happened or even if it exists, but news events do lead to a good deal more chatter. FB users basically told Zuckerberg they want this.
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Facebook is on a fast track to AOL land. I happens to every company who thinks they can be everything to everybody.
Re:Top Morons To Post Dupes Directly Into Slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
Digg V4 Phenomena (Score:1)
Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Fa (Score:5, Funny)
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There are no pictures of me on the internet. Lucky me for being so fugly, I guess.
Facebook, the modern day Compuserve? (Score:1)
All the services running through that one interface? Maybe a spurious comparison ...
Interactive? (Score:2)
What the hell is a "fast, interactive article"? What do you want to bet there won't be a block or close button on them either.
Inventory (Score:2)
Chris Cox (Score:1)
There's also a Chris W. Cox, chief lobbyist for the United States National Rifle Association. Nothing but a meaningless coincidence, of course.
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The coincidence presumably being that they're a bunch of Cox?
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"Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer ...."
There's also a Chris W. Cox, chief lobbyist for the United States National Rifle Association. Nothing but a meaningless coincidence, of course.
There are Cox Apples too.
Another brick in the garden wall (Score:5, Insightful)
There'll come a day, not far from now, when the open web is regarded as something like the text usenet - a ghetto populated mainly by an ever-shrinking crowd of greybeards.
Several local businesses in my town only have a facebook presence. Our equivalent of NPR (funded mainly by tax money) is steadily shifting its web and email contact points over to facebook pages. Even the goverment is on 'social'.
It truly offends me that a man can't go about his life without being forced to pay for / use foreign commercial service providers. :
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There'll come a day, not far from now, when the open web is regarded as something like the text usenet - a ghetto populated mainly by an ever-shrinking crowd of greybeards.
Several local businesses in my town only have a facebook presence. Our equivalent of NPR (funded mainly by tax money) is steadily shifting its web and email contact points over to facebook pages. Even the goverment is on 'social'.
It truly offends me that a man can't go about his life without being forced to pay for / use foreign commercial service providers. :
Indeed... it's the Return to AOL [slashdot.org].
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The usage of people under 25 is on the downslope, so this will become a walled elder garden. The grey beards will be on the inside, keeping the younsters off the FB lawn.
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The current FB demographics for the high use crowd -- the engagement curve that shows the people who spend the time on the site -- shows that under 25's aren't FB active like the over-25 crowd. This may make sense anecdotally; ask a teen or college student and they'll tell you they only us FB when required by the situation (logins, access to contact one of those FB-only businesses mentioned in the OP, etc).
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It truly offends me that a man can't go about his life without being forced to pay for / use foreign commercial service providers.
Hey, I'm American and it disgusts me as much as you.
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I'm American and it disgusts me as much as you.
Oh, now, don't be so hard on yourself. You couldn't help where you were born.
One Media Company For All (Score:1)
A lot of misguided outrage here (Score:4, Informative)
Posts to Newsfeed (Score:3)
Samzenpus' shit-stirring title: "Top Publishers To Post News Stories Directly To Facebook Timelines"
First line of the article: "... which posts news items directly to a user’s newsfeed."
The use of "timeline" suggests these articles will be auto-posted to people's walls, which is not the case and would seriously annoy most people. Currently there is a side box of trending articles - this change, while still mildly annoying, will simply put the articles in your news stream where it is less easy to ignore.
reason 1,590... (Score:1)
...that I am not on Facebook.