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james1906
07-04-2010, 06:45 PM
It has recommended both Rick Perry and Michelle Malkin for me because I am a fan of Debra Medina. WTF?
BlackTerrel
07-04-2010, 07:44 PM
It has recommended both Rick Perry and Michelle Malkin for me because I am a fan of Debra Medina. WTF?

Facebook algorithm is not very complex. If X percentage of people who are fans of Medina are also fans of Perry and Malkin it will recommend it to you.

What that X is depends on a number of factors.
james1906
07-04-2010, 08:16 PM
Facebook algorithm is not very complex. If X percentage of people who are fans of Medina are also fans of Perry and Malkin it will recommend it to you.

What that X is depends on a number of factors.

Who are these people?
BlackTerrel
07-04-2010, 09:02 PM
Don't know. In other news Lady Gaga is the most popular person on Facebook...and by extension - the world.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/entertainment/2010-07/05/c_13383746.htm


BEIJING, July 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Lady Gaga, who overtook Barack Obama as the most popular living person on Facebook on June 25, is on track to become the first living person to roll up 10 million Facebook fans, according to the British website Famecount.

Gaga's fan count reached 9,940,462, compared to Obama's 9,444,942, accroding to the British social-network statistics site...