--- description: Facebook is rolling out a feature that will provide you with a list of topics trending across the web, it announced on its website Thursday.... title: Facebook Will Provide Trending Topics, Without Hashtags image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) # Facebook Rolls Out Trending Topics by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Jan 16, 2014 6:38 PM CUT by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) Jan 16, 2014 6:38 PM CUT Facebook is rolling out a feature that will provide you with a list of topics trending across the web, it [announced](http://newsroom.fb.com/News/782/Finding-Popular-Conversations-on-Facebook "undefined") on its website Thursday. The module, which will show up on the top right-hand of users’ News Feed, doesn’t use the Twitter-style hashtags. Instead, the module will offer you three topics, each with a headline from a related news story. Click on the headline and you end up on a page compiling content about the topic from your friends and from across Facebook. Chris Struhar, an engineering manager at Facebook, told the New York [_Times_](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/facebook-rolls-out-its-version-of-trending-topics/ "undefined") that the topics that show up on your page will depend on your own interests, the authority of the people commenting on the topic, how recent the topic is, and the extent to which other Facebook users are posting about it. The feature should be available for everyone in the United States, Canada, Britain, India and Australia within the next two weeks, the _Times_ reports. It will show up in other countries and on the social network’s mobile app at a later date. \[[_New York Times_](http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/16/facebook-rolls-out-its-version-of-trending-topics/ "undefined")\] Facebook Will Provide Trending Topics, Without Hashtags ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7228375/facebook-rolls-out-trending-topics/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/archive/7228375/facebook-rolls-out-trending-topics/"},"headline":"Facebook Rolls Out Trending Topics","datePublished":"2014-01-16T18:38:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T10:46:50.544Z","description":"Facebook is rolling out a feature that will provide you with a list of topics trending across the web, it announced on its website Thursday....","url":"https://time.com/archive/7228375/facebook-rolls-out-trending-topics/","keywords":["Tech","Books","Data topic","Search"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-tech/","name":"Tech"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/archive/7228375/facebook-rolls-out-trending-topics/","name":"Facebook Rolls Out Trending Topics"}}]}] ```