Facebook Loops Major TV Networks Into Social Conversations

Facebook continues to aggressively emphasize real-time conversations on the site

The world's largest social network will now share weekly data on social chatter with the country's four largest television networks, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The weekly reports, which Facebook will send to ABC, NBC, Fox and CBS, will contain information on social conversations surrounding certain shows or programs

Facebook currently measures these kinds of interactions in the form of Likes, comments and shares. The reports will contain data on the top 45 shows from across all four networks, and each network will be able to see data from competitors Read more...