{"id":77846,"date":"2014-12-11T01:34:57","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=77846"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:19:25","slug":"facebook-app-now-tells-you-whats-trending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-app-now-tells-you-whats-trending\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook for Android now tells you what&#8217;s trending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trending feature that&#8217;s been on the Facebook website for ages finally makes it to the <a title=\"Facebook for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/facebook.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook for Android<\/a> and the mobile web. Now you&#8217;ll be able to see a <strong>trending section<\/strong> when you tap on the search feature.<\/p>\n<p>Tapping on a trending story will take you to its section where it will recommend more stories for you to read. It&#8217;s a good way to see what&#8217;s trending around the world for each topic. Each section reacts just like your News Feed where you can scroll quickly through headlines. Tapping on a story will take you to that page.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-77850\" title=\"Facebook Trending for Android\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/Image2b-568x425.png\" alt=\"Facebook Trending for Android\" width=\"568\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/Image2b-568x425.png 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/Image2b-256x192.png 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2014\/12\/Image2b.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new <strong>Live Feed<\/strong> feature that will show you real-time reactions to an ongoing event around the world. You can also filter stories that are shared from your friends and groups.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has always aimed to curate news that&#8217;s most relevant to you and the new Trending feature is the company&#8217;s realization of that goal. It hopes you&#8217;ll spend more time within Facebook instead of using news apps like <a title=\"BBC News for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/bbc-news.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BBC<\/a>, <a title=\"CNN for Android\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.cnn.mobile.android.phone&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>, or even <a title=\"Flipboard for Android\" href=\"http:\/\/flipboard.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flipboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Facebook update will begin rolling out to <strong>Android and mobile web users<\/strong> in the US today. Support for iOS and non-US countries is &#8220;coming soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a title=\"Facebook Newsroom\" href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2014\/12\/updates-to-trending\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Best Free iPhone Games\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/best-free-iphone-games\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best free iPhone games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Best free Android apps\" href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/best-free-android-apps\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Best free Android apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"VLC for Android is now stable\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/vlc-for-android-is-now-stable\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VLC for Android is now stable<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Apple picks the best apps and games of 2014\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-best-apps-and-games-of-2014\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple picks the best apps and games of 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>Follow me on Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trending feature that&#8217;s been on the Facebook website for ages finally makes it to the Facebook for Android and the mobile web. Now you&#8217;ll be able to see a trending section when you tap on the search feature. Tapping on a trending story will take you to its section where it will recommend more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/facebook-app-now-tells-you-whats-trending\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook for Android now tells you what&#8217;s trending&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":77850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2353],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-77846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionfacebook"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329754,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77846\/revisions\/329754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=77846"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=77846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}