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published 07 May 2012

Decline Of Reader Apps Likely Due To News Feed Changes, Shows Facebook Controls The Traffic Faucet

No, Facebook news reader apps arent declining because users suddenly got fed up with auto-sharing. The traffic loss is likely due to trending articles, a new way of surfacing recently read articles in the news feed that Facebook is testing. ...

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by Jeff Sonderman on poynter.org

Why Facebook frictionless sharing apps are suffering, and what it means

by Jeff Sonderman Published May 8, 2012 9:53 am Updated May 8, 2012 10:00 am Emerging evidence suggests the sudden decline in usage of Facebook news apps is a symptom of the social networks varied experiments in promoting reading activity in ...

by Dave Copeland on readwriteweb.com

Is Facebook 2012 The Same As AOL 2001?

Newsthat the use ofFacebook’sreader apps was in a steady freefall got me thinking aboutAOL. Or, more specifically, America Online, as the company was known back in the dot-com bubble, before it took on the AOL moniker as part of one of many image ...

by Rebecca Greenfield on theatlanticwire.com

Facebook Social Reader Stinks Less Than Previously Thought

After proclaiming in that loud-and-proud BuzzFeed way that Facebooks social reader collapsed because nobody likedproduct, Buzzfeeds John Herrman still wont take back that assessment, even after TechCrunchs John Constine proved him wrong. Yesterday,...

by Mathew Ingram on gigaom.com

The decline of social-news apps and Facebook as a gatekeeper

The apparent signs of a precipitous decline in some of Facebooks frictionless sharing social-news apps set off a a minor frenzy in the blogosphere on Monday, with many critics taking considerable delight in the collapse of something they openly ...

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Daily Must Reads, May 8, 2012

The best stories across the web on media and technology, curated by Lily Leung. 1. Facebook may be behind the decline of news-reader apps (TechCrunch) 2. Will social media help George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin case? (Poynter) 3. ...

by Laura Hazard Owen on paidcontent.org

The morning lowdown 5-8-12

Some of the stories people are talking about this morning Yahoo CEO apologizes for being a distraction (paidContent) The future of Yahoo: What Daniel Loeb really wants (ReadWriteWeb) Decline of reader apps likely due to news feed changes, shows ...

by Andrew Beaujon on poynter.org

Haters frustrated by reasonable explanation for social reader apps’ sudden decline

by Andrew Beaujon Published May 8, 2012 3:31 pm Updated May 8, 2012 3:35 pm It was a moment of vindication for anyone whose Facebook feed had been rendered unusable by mindless updates on their friends reading and listening histories: Jeff ...

by Dan Mitchell on blogs.sfweekly.com

Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers

News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because thats what readers are. The real customers for publishers arent readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. Its not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened ...

by Justin Ellis on niemanlab.org

The Guardian: Yep, it was “major changes” by Facebook that caused drop in social reader traffic

Scary charts once again dominated the future of news yesterday when both Forbes and BuzzFeed wrote about what appeared to be sharp declines in the use of Facebook social reader apps — the frictionless-sharing, tell all my friends I just read about ...

by Nate Hoffelder on the-digital-reader.com