Facebook Ticker Vanishes Due To Inactivity And Bugs

Reports that Facebook has removed the ticker apparently motivated the social network to call the phenomenon a bug that's undergoing a fix, although it's not a glitch when the feature disappears because of little to no activity on an account.

Reports that Facebook has removed the ticker apparently motivated the social network to call the phenomenon a bug that’s undergoing a fix, although it’s not a glitch when the feature disappears because of little to no activity on an account.

The site’s help center added an entry explaining that people with less active accounts won’t see the feature; this corroborates something I’d noticed once or twice when logging on at a time when none of the 750-plus people on my list were on Facebook — when your friends aren’t doing anything on the site, the ticker would only duplicate the news feed and not scroll, so there’s no point in the feature taking up part of your screen.

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