Soft posting to social activity streams

摘要

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving a soft post authored by a user, the soft post including a content item and having a distribution associated therewith, the distribution including a selected group of users that are socially connected to the user, determining an interest level with respect to a content item of the soft post based on content items submitted by one or more users of the selected group of users, the interest level reflecting a likelihood that users of the selected group of users would be interested in the viewing the soft post, comparing the interest level to an interest level threshold associated with the soft post, and selectively providing user access to the content item of the soft post based on the comparing.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method executed using one or more processors, the method comprising:
receiving, by the one or more processors, a soft post authored by a user, the soft post comprising multiple data components, the multiple data components comprising an electronic content item and distribution data defining a distribution associated with the electronic content item, the distribution comprising a selected group of users that are socially connected to the user within a computer-implemented social networking service, the soft post being withheld from the distribution until an interest level exceeds an interest level threshold associated with the soft post; determining, by the one or more processors, the interest level with respect to the electronic content item of the soft post based on electronic content items submitted by one or more users of the selected group of users, the interest level reflecting a likelihood that users of the selected group of users would be interested in the viewing the soft post; comparing, by the one or more processors, the interest level to the interest level threshold associated with the soft post; and determining, by the one or more processors, that the interest level exceeds the interest level threshold, and in response, automatically providing user access to the electronic content item of the soft post based on the distribution.