Facebook users have encountered “trending articles” popping up in their news feeds for the past few weeks. This new feature highlights articles that are popular with your friends, ensuring you don’t miss a hot story because it gets pushed down to the bottom of your feed.A new “trending videos” feature is being rolled out to some Facebook users, according to a report from TheNextWeb. Once you’ve got the new feature, it will auto-populate with videos your friends are watching on Facebook’s Open Graph apps.
Facebook has been experimenting with trending articles, giving the feature a less invasive redesign late last month.
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However, plenty of Mashable readers found the feature cumbersome and annoying. One, David Holley, called it “obnoxious as hell” because it didn’t seem to actually highlight articles that his friends were reading. How could Facebook do a better job of highlighting popular articles and videos in your news feed? Let us know in the comments.
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One in every five page views in the U.S. occurred on Facebook, bringing in more than 400 billion page views this year.
The average visit time on Facebook is 20 minutes.
10 states account for 52% of visits to Facebook – California, Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, based on year-to-date average.
4. Most Popular Region for Visits The New York City area provides the largest volume of traffic to Facebook in the country.
But West Virginia is the state where residents are most likely to visit Facebook. Rounding out the top ten per capita is Kentucky (no. 2), Maine (no. 3), Vermont (no. 4), Arkansas (no. 5), Iowa (no. 6), Indiana (no. 7), Mississippi (no.8), Oklahoma (no. 9) and Alabama (no. 10), based on year-to-date average.
Facebook became the top ranked website in the U.S. in 2010.
Facebook isn't just huge in the U.S. It's the top overall site in the following international spots: Canada, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Meanwhile, Facebook ranks second in the UK, Brazil, France and Australia.
Facebook's audience skews slightly more female (56%) than male.
The term ‘Facebook’ has been the most searched term in the US for three years, starting the week ending on July 18, 2009.
Facebook members know a thing or two about loyalty. About 96% of visitors to the site have returned within the past 30 days, as of April 2012.
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