Facebook Testing Trending Topics Module

Hashtags and trending topics: Must be Twitter, right? Not so fast: The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is testing a trending topics section in its News Feed, featuring hashtags that are popular at that moment.

Hashtags and trending topics: Must be Twitter, right? Not so fast: The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook is testing a trending topics section in its News Feed, featuring hashtags that are popular at that moment.

A Facebook spokeswoman confirmed the test to the Journal, saying:

We are running a small test of a unit on News Feed. Right now, it is only available to a small percentage of U.S. users, and it is still in the early stages of development.

The module appears in the upper-right-hand corner of News Feed.

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