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

Posted by yaelk on from the #tweets dept.

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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  1. Same thing that facebook tries to do... by QuietLagoon · · Score: 3, Insightful
    ... 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.

    1. Re:Same thing that facebook tries to do... by buchner.johannes · · Score: 4, Funny

      Facebook knows what is best for you. Stop trying to break out of that bubble.

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      NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
    2. Re:Same thing that facebook tries to do... by Sowelu · · Score: 2

      I like Twitter as a way to follow friends/family news that forces them to ramble less.

  2. Control Over What You Get to See by Kunedog · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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).

  3. So, um, how does this work? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  4. "Important" tweets by russotto · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "Important"

  5. Re:Still going to be optional by desdinova+216 · · Score: 2

    people still use yahoo groups?

  6. Re:what is the advantage of twitter? by Sowelu · · Score: 2

    Usenet has had a signal/noise ratio of about 1% since the late 90s. Who the hell wants to maintain killfiles? It sure isn't most users, who keep spamming up groups with responses to trolls.

  7. Apostrophes, damn it! by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 2

    at least thats what its hoping its doing

    Come ooooon.

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