{"id":22324,"date":"2018-07-31T16:26:43","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=22324"},"modified":"2018-07-31T16:26:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T20:26:43","slug":"please-follow-in-apple-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/31\/please-follow-in-apple-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Follow in Apple News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/07\/30\/please-follow-tidbits-in-apple-news\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2018\/07\/30\/please-follow-tidbits-in-apple-news\/\">\n<p>Apple News is focused on large publishers and therefore needs quite a number of articles for training its natural language parser. Since we publish only about 50 articles per month, whereas a large publisher might release several times that per day, I was told that it could take several months before the algorithm knew what to do with our content.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Most notably, I was told that Apple News cares quite deeply about the number of people who follow a particular publication&mdash;the more followers, the more likely Apple News is to recommend that publication&rsquo;s articles to other people.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple subsequently told me that the Apple News algorithm also takes some of its cues from those [section] names, so I&rsquo;ve added more sections that match up with topic names (Apple, Mac, iOS, Cybersecurity, and so on) that people can find in Apple News when searching for specific topics of interest.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>You can follow this blog on Apple News <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.news\/TOe8IoEHXTDKknwyO8gNRTQ\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/18\/switching-from-rss-to-apple-news-format\/\">Switching From RSS to Apple News Format<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Apple News is focused on large publishers and therefore needs quite a number of articles for training its natural language parser. Since we publish only about 50 articles per month, whereas a large publisher might release several times that per day, I was told that it could take several months before the algorithm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-07-31T20:26:45Z","apple_news_api_id":"53cb333a-38f1-4179-9a49-ca9994b911df","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-07-31T20:26:45Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AU8szOjjxQXmaScqZlLkR3w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1223,31,1472,30,1529,1659,1523,96],"class_list":["post-22324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-apple-news","tag-ios","tag-ios-11","tag-mac","tag-macos-10-13","tag-this-blog","tag-tidbits","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22325,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22324\/revisions\/22325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}