SUGGESTING RECIPIENTS FOR CONTENT ITEMS PRESENTED THROUGH A SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM

摘要

A social networking system identifies one or more additional users to be presented with a content item to a user presenting the content item (“sending user”). Information maintained by the social networking system and describing prior interaction between the sending user and various additional users is retrieved. Based on the prior interaction between the sending user and the additional users, one or more additional users are identified to the sending user as potential recipients for the content item. For example, a frequency of interaction between the user and additional users, affinity between the user and various additional users, or other suitable information is used to identify potential recipients of the content item.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving a selection of a content item from a user of a social networking system; retrieving information describing interaction between the user and one or more additional users of the social networking system; ranking the one or more additional users based at least in part on retrieved information describing a level of previous interaction between the user and each of the one or more additional users; identifying a set of the one or more additional users based at least in part on the ranking; communicating information describing the identified set of the one or more additional users as potential recipients of the selected content item to a client device for presentation to the user.