Twitter's Timeline Option Puts Important Tweets Up Top (engadget.com)

Twitter is doing its best to make sure you see the best content in your timeline (at least thats what its hoping its doing with today's announcement of a new timeline option). The new feature drops what Twitter determines are the best tweets at the top of a user's timeline. For now, this feature is optional, so users can opt-in to see this timeline. In the coming weeks, it will slowly be rolled out to all users.

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Same thing that facebook tries to do...

[QuietLagoon]

... and facebook doesn't do it well. I constantly have to view my friends' pages directly to see what's going on because facebook's algorithm prioritizes the wrong posts onto my page.

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Maybe twitter will be able to do better at reading my mind to determine what I want to read, maybe not.

So long as I can disable it, I'm fine with it for now.

Control Over What You Get to See

[Kunedog]

This is not about "important" tweets any more than the "Trust and Safety Council" is about "harrassment" or "trolling." It's about controlling which content everyone is allowed to see (i.e. making it more like television).

So, um, how does this work?

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

How can this feature exist when 'important tweet' is somewhere between 'theoretical' and 'logically impossible', and definitely not easy to find in the wild?

"Important" tweets

[russotto]

"Important"