Facebook news feed turns 10
Facebook is celebrating the tenth anniversary of its News Feed, an innovation that has changed the way news is shared and consumed on social media.
“This invention is one of my favourite stories from Facebook’s history,” said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in a post on his Facebook page on Tuesday.
“At the beginning of Facebook, there was no News Feed. For more than two years, Facebook was just a collection of profiles.
“With News Feed, all of a sudden you could share with all your friends at once. And you could see what was happening with all your friends in one place. News Feed was the first real social feed. It was such a fundamental idea that now, 10 years later, every major social app has its own equivalent of News Feed,” he added.
The original team that worked on the feature, apart from Zuckerberg himself, included Chris Cox, Boz, Kang-Xing Jin and Ruchi Sanghvi.
Zuckerberg described News Feed as one of the most advanced systems built by his company highlighting that nothing of such had been built before it was launched.
But in spite of the glowing testament, the California-based company has had to defend itself against an allegation that it was suppressing conservative news in its Trending Topics sidebar.