This script shows you how Facebook ranks all your friends

http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2013/11/10/script-shows-facebook-ranks-friends/

by sethbannon • 13 years ago

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LukeWalsh2• 13 years ago

I would be interested to see exactly where this script came from.

It seems approximately correct just based on the posts I generally see in my newsfeed, but is this just someone's guess as to how Facebook could be doing things?

sntran• 13 years ago

Facebook used to have an algorithm called EdgeRank (http://www.whatisedgerank.com/) that sorts these relationship. Pretty sure they have changed this over time, but it is a start.

LukeWalsh2• 13 years ago

Crazy that there is a whole market for optimizing Facebook's edge rank calculations (http://edgerankchecker.com).

Could this be the new SEO?

jacobwg• 13 years ago

I wrote a similar script with a word cloud visualization here: https://jacobwg.com/facebook-friends

It was fun...

StudyAnimal• 13 years ago

Hmm weird, there are a lot of people fairly high up on the list that are not my friends, some have 1 mutual friend, most are total strangers...

davej2• 13 years ago

Does anybody know if the ranking is bi-directional? Is the rank just calculated on your activity (e.g.: visiting a friends profile) or does it include the activity of your friends (e.g.: when a friend visits your profile)

gergles• 13 years ago

There's no way it's bi-directional, as some of my lowest-ranked (i.e., best) edges are people with whom I am not friends.

davej2• 13 years ago

Maybe the people who you are FB stalking are also FB stalking you!

Artemis2• 13 years ago

Here is the id of this script for Backtick (http://www.backtick.io/): 7403858

phwd2• 13 years ago

This is slightly incorrect, it's more how Facebook ranks for searching. Those numbers are for search bar ranking of objects (users,groups,etc) you recently and/or most interact with. You can check yourself by typing the first letter of any of those names and that name is probably the first selection in your Facebook search bar.

A better ranking would be to look at communication_rank and observation_rank in FQL (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/technical-guides/fql/)

SELECT uid2, communication_rank, observation_rank FROM friend WHERE uid1=me() ORDER BY communication_rank

prezjordan• 13 years ago

Are these fields still valid? The reference for the friend table[0] doesn't listen anything but uid1 and uid2.

[0] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/fql/friend

phwd2• 13 years ago

These are hidden fields available only through whitelisted applications like Facebook for iOS.

http://i.imgur.com/4FdUJ1u.png

This script shows you how Facebook ranks all your friends

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