Content Source Ranking: Automatic Based on Engagement Data

For each type of content source, we've defined a set of social signals used to evaluate the "importance" of a shared article.  The scoring of articles is based on three main elements:

• who shared the article
• who published the article:  we attribute reputation scores to article sources, based on the monthly processing of 240 million articles
• the content of the article itself: we look at the article itself, taking into account when it was published, the language, topic covered. 

 

In order to unearth those content gems from your entire list of sources, we then aggregate and rank articles across sources, and include some "boost factors" depending on the type of source (e.g. single Twitter user, RSS feed, twitter keyword search, etc) to end up with a ranked list of articles based on engagement data across your entire list of sources.

 

Pin a source to give it a boost   (Pro)

 

If you have a source with content that you want to include in your paper, regardless its engagement ranking, pin it!

 

To pin a source, go to your Paper Settings > Content tab.

Then, click the  icon/button, to the right of the source you would like to pin, and select "Pin source to top."  

 

A pin icon will then appear at the top of the source, and it will be placed at the top of your source list.

 

Your final, ranked list of content presented on your paper populates the headlines and section pages of the paper, resulting in content that is sure to be more varied, relevant and engaging for you and your readers.

  

 

Amount of content fetched

We go back and fetch all tweets and content specified in your content sources, discard any duplicate URLs, URLs from private accounts or links that are broken, then analyze, organize and present the most relevant content (based on the top--max. 6--most relevant topics), video and photo excluded. To keep discovery relevant, we limit content to 250 articles, 100 images and 50 videos per paper. 

 

 

Switching from Automated to Manual Ranking (Pro)

If automated ranking is not working for you, you can change your ranking method to manual ranking, where you determine the source ranking yourself.