As Facebook continues to tinker with its layout and services to spur more interactions and engagement, it seems that not even the most well-known or oldest features are spared. In the most recent development, it looks like Facebook has quietly removed the Ticker, the box that used to appear to the right of your News Feed to summarize what all your friends have been liking, commenting on, and generally doing on the social network.
The removal has come after several weeks of people reporting the feature suddenly disappearing for them. Sometime in the last week, on a thread in Facebook’s Help Community started by one of those users, a verified member of the Facebook help team simply announced that “This feature is no longer available.” The question has also now been closed to further comments.
If it’s gone for good, the Ticker is one of the more legacy features to get the chop at Facebook.
The Ticker was first launched in 2011, to coincide with Facebook introducing an algorithmic News Feed. Instead of showing you your friends’ most recent posts and interactions in the News Feed, Facebook surfaced posts that it deemed more relevant or interesting to you, as well as posts that were already getting a lot of traction. So the aim of the Ticker was to complement this by giving you a time-based summary of all activity to help you keep tabs on everything if you wanted to anyway, and use those alerts as jumping-in points to start interacting yourself.
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