Twitter will soon be a bit less irritating for many people - Digital Trends

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By Trevor Mogg January 25, 2023 11:15PM

With oregon without Elon Musk astatine the helm, Twitter can’t look to determine what it wants to bash with its algorithmic timeline, presently branded arsenic “for you,” which shows tweets it thinks you’ll like, whether oregon not you travel the tweeter.

For years it’s been messing astir not lone with the algorithm, but besides with the grade to which it forces the timeline connected users.

In 2016, you had to actively select the algorithmic timeline if you wanted to presumption it. Then Twitter made it the default, a determination that annoyed users who preferred to spell consecutive to their cautiously curated chronological feed. Twitter yet relented and acceptable it truthful that erstwhile you reopened the app, you’d instrumentality to the timeline you were looking astatine last.

But past a fewer weeks ago, it made the “for you” timeline the default again, forcing users to person to swipe the surface to entree the chronological timeline, presently called “following.”

The instrumentality to “for you” arsenic the default upset a batch of radical (again). The bully quality is that Twitter has relented (again) and volition soon amusement the aforesaid provender that you were past utilizing each clip you reopen the app (again!).

“Were immoderate of you (all of you) asking for your timeline to default to wherever you near it last?” Twitter Support said successful a tweet connected Wednesday.

It added that starting present connected the web mentation of Twitter, the work volition retrieve which timeline you were utilizing truthful that you won’t person to fiddle astir switching feeds if you privation the chronological timeline. The aforesaid alteration volition beryllium made to the iOS and Android Twitter apps, but the institution could lone accidental it’s “coming soon.”

It’s wide wherefore Twitter wants to propulsion its algorithmic provender arsenic it shows a batch of tweets by radical you don’t follow, a plan that supposedly boosts engagement connected the service, expanding connections passim the level and enabling Twitter to instrumentality that information to advertisers.

But with the chronological feed, the idiosyncratic feels they person much power implicit the contented arsenic they’re seeing tweets from those they follow, including their retweets. Also, this timeline feels much orderly, arsenic the posts look with the latest ones astatine the top, and not each jumbled up arsenic they are successful the “for you” feed

Perhaps this latest alteration volition yet enactment the substance to bed. Though we wouldn’t stake connected it.