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“RIP Twitter”: Twitter to Introduce Algorithmic Timeline as Soon as Next Week

• mjirv 11y ago
  Makes sense for Twitter to do this, with a couple conditions: 1. Keep existing users happy by letting them opt-in but not forcing them to, and letting them easily switch back 2. Default new users to the algorithmic timeline to get them hooked by providing good content right away (note: from people they aren't following?). As an existing Twitter user with a highly curated timeline that I'm very happy with, I have no problem with this at all unless they force me to start using it.
  • 3beans 11y ago
    So it makes sense for them to do it if they do two points you raised on HN and otherwise not? Ok whatever.
• jedisct1 11y ago
  Hopefully the API will keep working the same way, so that clients won't be affected. I never use the Twitter website. I don't understand how it works. Tweets seems to be randomly ordered, and many that I am seeing in Echofon are not visible on the website. Viewing new tweets requires clicking constantly. The website also constantly tells me to follow people I am already following.
• qrendel 11y ago
  I worry more that this will turn twitter into more of a filter bubble. I use twitter largely as a news feed, and hence include a lot of sources that I frequently disagree with but still like to be exposed to. I'd much rather just drink from the firehose than have an algorithm automatically hide stuff just because it's not similar to what I've favorited in the past.