Google Buzz Makes Popular Users Less Overwhelming

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Pete Cashmore
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Google Buzz Makes Popular Users Less Overwhelming
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The Google Buzz team made changes today that prevent popular postings from overwhelming your inbox - that's good news if you follow popular feeds like the Mashable Google Buzz account.

The problem: Because Google Buzz pushes items into your inbox whenever new comments are left after yours, popular postings can become noisy.

Today the Buzz team announced that it wil "bump" popular postings less frequently to keep them out of your inbox. The team writes:

"If you're following someone with a ton of followers, you're probably used to seeing their posts at the top of your stream all the time, since we've been bumping them back up with every new comment. Starting a few hours ago, we made some changes to not bump them up as often.:

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