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Over the past few months Facebook has made many improvements to its News Feed in order to ensure that its one billion plus users find posts and links that they are most interested in. The world’s largest social network now has click-baiting headlines in its sights. It has become a common practice on Facebook pages these days to divert traffic to websites by crafting headlines that entice users to click. Some of these headlines deliberately leave out information to get the maximum number of users to click through. Facebook is putting an end to this.

There’s a genuine problem with click-baiting headlines. They don’t necessarily reveal what people will see or read once they click through to the internal website. Scammers can put this to use for their nefarious means. Since these posts get a lot of clicks, engagement increases and the post gets shown to more and more people as a result of it.

This keeps legitimate publishers out who don’t participate in click-baiting, and floods users’ News Feeds with irrelevant posts that they might not be interested in. Facebook says that an initial survey revealed that majority of its users are overwhelmingly in favor of headlines that give them an idea of what they’ll read or see when they click through.

Facebook will use a variety of methods to determine what looks like click-bait. One method is to see how much time people spend away from Facebook reading something they’ve clicked through to. If they go and come straight back the social network will think what they saw wasn’t worth their time.

It will also show fewer of these stories in order to see the ratio of people who click on the content as opposed to those who share it or comment on it. If many users click through the post but fewer like or share it upon their return, it will also be considered as a sign that the post had a click-baiting headline.

Facebook Clamps Down On Click-Baiting Headlines

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Popular game streaming service Twitch seems to have a lot of high profile suitors. For the past few months now it has been reported that Google is interested in purchasing the service. Last one it was even reported that the Mountain View giant had picked it up for $1 billion however there has been no official confirmation of a sale to this day. Perhaps things haven’t been finalized between Google and Twitch, this might have opened up the door for Amazon which is now reportedly in final stages of talks for an acquisition.

The Information cites a source “close to the transaction,” claiming that talks between Amazon and Twitch are in a late-stage. The online retail giant is reportedly interested in buying the largest video game streaming service on the planet.

Think of Twitch as a service that’s similar to YouTube but its focus is entirely on live gaming. Gamers from around the world can easily create their channels and share live gameplay with viewers from all around the world. At the end of last year Twitch had over 45 million users who watched a 100 minutes of video every day on average.

The report does say how much Amazon is going to pay for Twitch, but if Google’s $1 billion figure is correct, then it would have certainly offered a much sweeter deal. As of now there has been no confirmation or denial of the talks by both Amazon and Twitch.

Amazon Reportedly Buying Twitch Before Google

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Forget the fries; you can now get a free smartphone with that Whopper.

Burger King kicked off a new promotion Monday, offering customers free Android smartphones with a two-year contract or upgrade with AT&T, Sprint or Verizon.

The phones can be snagged via the Burger King website with the promo code “FREEPHONE.” Customers have a choice of more than 30 devices, including the Samsung Galaxy S4, the LG Optimus G Pro and the HTC One M7.

Samuel Heath, director of revenue management and pricing for Burger King, told Mashable that these phones would otherwise cost between $50 and $150 with a two-year contract.

“We wanted to make sure we took care of all the people who come to Burger King,” Heath told the news outlet of the motivation behind the promotion. “You forget sometimes that only half the people have smartphones.”

He added that the company has an ample number of Android devices in stock — enough, he says, to keep up with the promotion for several weeks.

The timing of Burger King’s new promotion will likely raise a few eyebrows, as its launch neatly coincided with news this week that the company is in talks to buy Canada’s Tim Hortons in an alleged effort to avoid U.S. taxes.

Radina Russell of Brunswick Group, a PR firm that represents Burger King, referred The Huffington Post to Burger King’s corporate offices when asked about the timing of the deal. Burger King did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The jury is still very much out, however, as to whether or not the promotion will sufficiently distract U.S. customers from news of this possible move north.

Already, criticism of Burger King has flooded social media, with some netizens calling for a boycott of the fast food chain. “Definitely will not step foot in a BK ever again,” wrote one Facebook user Monday. “They can’t pay their share then they don’t need my $$$.”

According to the Burger King website, the new smartphone promotion was launched to “celebrate the release of the new Burger King App for Android.” But while customers who get a new smartphone will be encouraged to download the app, it won’t be a requirement.

When Spike the cockatoo saw that his canine companions here hungry, he knew there was only one thing to do: throw them a bone.

In this video from YouTube user rrry150, Spike — curiously chillin’ on a countertop — tosses Milk Bone after Milk Bone down to two Great Danes.

If that isn’t a gesture of true friendship, we don’t know what is.

John Oliver could not stop talking about your friendly neighborhood HuffPost Comedy editors in this “Last Week Tonight” web exclusive, and we couldn’t be more flattered.

In fact, since Oliver and company are such fans of our headlines, we decided to write a few more.

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