Reverse-Chronological Twitter Feed Returns As An Option

[Luca Rallis]

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Twitter is offering users another escape hatch from its ranked timeline. The company said today that it will introduce a prominent new toggle in the app to switch from the ranked timeline to the original, reverse-chronological feed.

 

Definitely a welcome change from Twitter. I can stand this trend of social media platforms moving away from the reverse-chronological timeline. The only platform where I find it acceptable is Facebook.

 

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The latest incarnation of the original Twitter feed can be accessed by tapping the cluster of small stars — the company calls it the “sparkle” and now so shall we all, forever — and switching to see the latest tweets. Over time, the company will learn your behavior. If you routinely switch to the latest tweets, Twitter will default you to them. This marks a change from the past, when the app would switch you back to the ranked timeline at unpredictable intervals.

 

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The toggle will begin rolling out today on iOS and will come to other platforms in the coming weeks, the company said.

 

All we need now is the ability to edit tweets.

 

Source: https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/18/18145089/twitter-latest-tweets-toggle-ranked-feed-timeline-algorithm

[Fnige]

Back in time... Now starring Twitter

[Syntaxvgm]

Finally! I'll have to find another reason to use an excuse for not using twitter. 

[Brooksie359]

How does that even work. If it is time based then won't it move so fast that you can't see anyones tweet. 

[captain_to_fire]

Yay!

[vorticalbox]

7 hours ago, Luca Rallis said:

The only platform where I find it acceptable is Facebook.

Why? What makes facebook special?

 

It's a timeline and they, as the name suggests, should be in time order not in whatever ever order an AI thinks will make one more likely to click.

[GoldenLag]

7 hours ago, Luca Rallis said:

All we need now is the ability to edit tweets.

Oh, god please no

[TimeOmnivore]

8 hours ago, Luca Rallis said:

will come to other platforms in the coming weeks

I hope browser/desktop is one of those platforms this much needed feature comes to. Having to refresh the page 20-30 times to make Twitter stop skipping over several hours of tweets is ridiculously annoying.

[williamcll]

gonna be interesting to see how people post differently over time.

[RejZoR]

So, sack the most logical listing of messages and then reintroduce it years later and you'll be all over the news as this big innovator. F**k me sideways...

[duncannah]

I used to use Tweetdeck on my phone browser just because of this, glad they're fixing it now. Now if only they could fix the birthday ban thing

[Canada EH]

12 hours ago, Luca Rallis said:

Twitter.

I am sorry, I do not know what Twitter is, nor do I wish to even give a fuck about it. But to make a useful comment on the chronological aspect,, I like to sort from cheap to expensive, from new to old. If its old to new then why does someone want to scroll down all the time.

[Brooksie359]

6 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

who and how many do you follow on twitter o_o

Nobody. I don't use Twitter.