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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. 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. 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"