The Meta-owned social media platform put out a blog post explaining how its ranking system works. June 01, 2023 / 03:03 PM IST (Image: Sara Kurfess/Unsplash) Social media platform, Instagram, has revealed how the company recommends content for your home feed. The ranking system which decided what posts show up on your feed has long been a subject of discussion. Now, the Meta-owned social giant has decided to take the mystery away.In a blog post, head of Instagram, Adam Mosseri breaks down the minutia of the platform’s post ranking system.Mosseri said the platform was doing this because, “there are a lot of misconceptions out there, and we recognize that we can do more to help people, especially creators, understand what we do”.The ranking systemThe system doesn’t rely on one particular algorithm to decide what posts to promote. Instead, there are a variety of different ones that classify and promote content.Each section of the platform – Feed, Search, Stories, Explore and Reels use their own specific algorithm, which have been tailored to how people interact with each section of the app.For example, Mosseri wrote that people tend to look for their closest friends in Stories section first, then move on to
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Instagram explains how it recommends content for your feed – Moneycontrol
