Is Facebook Testing ‘Trending Now’ News Feed Posts?

First hashtags, and now “Trending Now”: Is Facebook becoming Twitter?

First hashtags, and now “Trending Now”: Is Facebook becoming Twitter?

An AllFacebook reader shared the screenshot above, saying that they had not liked the CNN page, but a CNN story appeared in their News Feed under the Trending Now tag.

The social network began testing a Trending Topics module on News Feed in August, and it brought back Trending Articles that same month, but this is the first we’ve seen of Trending Now.

Readers: Have you seen anything similar?

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