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TWITTER IS CHANGING, but only time will tell if you will actually like it?
Twitter said this evening that they are “exploring ways to surface relevant Tweets so the content that is interesting to you is easy to discover”.
Basically, just like Facebook, they are going to use information like who you follow and what you engage with to surface highlights of what you missed and show Tweets to you as soon as you log back in or come back to the app.
Timeline
It said it is also working on ideas such as an instant, personalised timeline for new users who don’t want to spend time cultivating one on their own.
These “product improvements” will be coming online in the coming months.
The reasoning behind the change – Twitter says that what you see of the 500 million Tweets published every day is limited and is based entirely on who you follow.
It said that with that many Tweets every day, there’s no way even “the most avid Twitter user will find everything that’s relevant to their interests in any particular moment”.
Changes to Direct Messages are also on the way, with updates coming that will make it easy to take a public conversation private (which could be useful for all those Twitter spats).
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Once they don’t make a hash of it. :o
Hashtag of it?
You’re on the ball this evenin lad!!!
Disappointing that it’s not going to be in chronological order anymore. I tend to go back over my timeline anyway, so I generally don’t miss any tweets. Also, I don’t want to see tweets of accounts that I don’t follow. That’s kinda the reason I don’t follow them. If they really are going to change it, I hope they give the option to view tweets from the most recent tweet. I really hope they don’t mess it up. It’s the only social media thing I actually like.
“Basically, just like Facebook, they are going to use information like who you follow and what you engage with to surface highlights of what you missed and show Tweets to you as soon as you log back in or come back to the app.”
“Changes to Direct Messages are also on the way, with updates coming that will make it easy to take a public conversation private (which could be useful for all those Twitter spats).”
It’s as though they take everything good about twitter and then try to ruin them
Just STOP! It ain’t broke so don’t fix it!
Only thing I’d change about Twitter would be to make the 140 characters a little flexible, allowing you to finish the last word of a tweet. i.e. The 140th character would be the first character of the last word and they let you type a few more characters so long as you don’t start a new word.
It is getting annoying seeing random spam appearing in my feed.
“The reasoning behind the change – Twitter says that what you see of the 500 million Tweets published every day is limited and is based entirely on who you follow.”
If I want to see more tweets I’ll follow more people. Pi$$ off with the crap updates.
I will stop using twitter if Big Brother is going to force tweets on me, I like my personalised timeline not one forced on me.
Why do they think that trying to force me see tweets from people that I don’t follow is an improvement? I only follow specific people and I follow them for a reason. I don’t want anymore junk, especially not junk I don’t have a say in. Facebook is already ruined. Why can’t they leave Twitter alone?
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