Dieter Bohn Facebook is getting rid of trending topics

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From: The Verge - Friday Jun 01, 2018 02:00 pm
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Facebook announced that it's shutting down its Trending topics section because "people found the product to be less and less useful." While that is definitely true, I'm pretty sure* Facebook shut down Trending topics because it was the longest-running joke on Twitter, a place where trending topics are, you know, actually trending.

You see, Facebook's Trending topics have routinely been a full day (or more) behind Twitter. It would be like someone who gets all of their news on network TV at 6:30 every night trying to keep you informed during the day. 

So while Facebook is killing off Trending topics, it's likely a lot will remain the same for users on the platform. I do expect to see a change in the number of Facebook jokes on Twitter. Those will definitely go up.

*totally guessing 

-Micah
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