Sharing television and video programming through social networking

摘要

In particular embodiments, a social networking system identifies a user viewing video content on a first display device, identifies the video content being viewed on the first display device by the user, and determines a second display device associated with the identified user. The social networking system sends one or more instructions to the determined second display device to display one or more chat messages associated with the identified video content.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
by one or more computer systems of a social-networking system, identifying a first user viewing video content on a first display device; by one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, identifying the video content being viewed on the first display device by the first user; by one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, determining a second display device associated with the first user; by one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, accessing chat messages from second users, wherein the chat messages are associated with the video content; by one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, applying an automatic filter to the chat messages to identify those that are of particular relevance to the first user; and by one or more computer systems of the social-networking system, sending one or more instructions to the second display device to display the chat messages, as filtered, to the first user; wherein a chat message that is of particular interest to the first user, as identified according to the automatic filter: is associated with a second user who is a friend of the first user as determined from a social graph of the social-networking system; is associated with a second user who has a level of affinity with the first user that is at or above a particular affinity threshold, as determined from a social graph of the social-networking system; has received a number of endorsements from second users that is at or above a particular endorsement threshold; or has received a number of replies from second users that is at or above a particular reply threshold.