Introduction
The Activity Feed is a frequently updated stream of content in the form of stories that flow from the top to the bottom of the page as time goes on. we addressed these issues in a new version of the Activity Feed that was built and deployed to all of our tens of millions of uses. These users cover the full gamut of our website engagement levels, ranging from the first-time visitor to the long-time power user.
Activity Feeds
Activity feeds are loosely time-ordered sets of varied content, and are commonly found on popular social networks such as Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. The content in feeds is drawn from a set of content products. Typically, content producers are nodes in a user’s social graph, which represents the user’s interests based on explicit user action, for example, “following” another user. We call content generated from a user’s social graph organic content. We also note that the time-ordered nature of the AF makes it ideal for keeping up with the actions of your social graph, the users with whom one shares commonalities. Because AFs are singular source for “what is new” amongst a peer group, they often serve as a primary landing page for users.