Twitter goes Facebook by injecting foreign content into your stream

It was really just a matter of time — Twitter is now Facebook. In its early days, where new Facebook users friended just a handful of close pals and relatives, every single status update poured through into one’s news feed. And then, hundreds of millions of people joined. At some point, we as a society decided that “friending” someone wasn’t really hallowed, so we accepted requests by the hundreds. Sometimes, by the thousands. To combat the torrent of news, Facebook was forced to develop an algorithmic approach to selectively populating one’s news feed. Today, you have to manually override the default “Top News” to see “Most Recent,” and if you aren’t careful, Facebook will revert it for you after a

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