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This is very sad news. The #1 reason why I moved from Facebook to Twitter was that the latter service used straightforward algoritms for deciding what to show

This is very sad news. The #1 reason why I moved from Facebook to Twitter was that the latter service used straightforward algoritms for deciding what to show me. When I opened Twitter, I could be almost sure that the timeline would only contain posts from people I followed, arranged in chronological order. Of course, there were some exceptions. Firstly, they always had ads. I see how many people here get angry about it, but I think ads on such site is perfectly normal. After all, they have to make money somehow, right? Secondly, there were times when I saw "While you were away" box. This was the thing I found annoying from the beginning. How did Twitter infer that I was interested in these five posts more than in those five posts? It got worse over time. In fact, now this box shows up after a few hours of my absence, as if I am expected to check Twitter 10 times a day. And it appears that they are planning to take these features to a new level. I really hope they don't do everything they talk about, but if they do, maybe I will have to seek a new social media service.

rogerfernandezg 10y ago
In some way, I felt the same some time ago, so I created http://preciousdigest.com http://preciousdigest.com to filter relevant tweets in my timeline.
rconti 10y ago
I can't laugh hard enough at this. I agree I (sorta) hate the Facebook filtering algorithm, but I find Twitter even more impenetrable. It's just impossible to figure out what's going on. Here's my timeline, just opened it up for this comment: * Account I follow, 15s ago. * PROMOTED post from 5 days ago. (here I've already run out of browser real estate on a 27" display because the tweets take so much damn room. Scroll down a page) * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 4h ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 6h ago * While you were away: retweet from 2 days ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * Actual twitter post from user I follow, 2h ago. * PROMOTED from 18 days ago For all intents and purposes, the Twitter feed is less chronological, less useful, and less content-dense than Facebook, and that's saying something considering that Twitter is supposedly a 140char service. I had to scroll through 3 pages of crap before I got to the actual chronological twitter you speak of. Also, they have this horrible habit of making tweets with a white background, then a tiny grey divider between tweets so it can be hard to tell at a glance when you've moved from one section of content to another -- much like when GMail went from colored message threading to all-monochrome.
- Bombthecat 10y ago
  When you had to scroll through three pages to get what you want. They archived what they wanted.No?

rogerfernandezg 10y ago

In some way, I felt the same some time ago, so I created http://preciousdigest.com http://preciousdigest.com to filter relevant tweets in my timeline.

rconti 10y ago

I can't laugh hard enough at this. I agree I (sorta) hate the Facebook filtering algorithm, but I find Twitter even more impenetrable. It's just impossible to figure out what's going on. Here's my timeline, just opened it up for this comment: * Account I follow, 15s ago. * PROMOTED post from 5 days ago. (here I've already run out of browser real estate on a 27" display because the tweets take so much damn room. Scroll down a page) * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 4h ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * While you were away: post from 3 days ago * While you were away: post from 6h ago * While you were away: retweet from 2 days ago * While you were away: post from 1 day ago * Actual twitter post from user I follow, 2h ago. * PROMOTED from 18 days ago For all intents and purposes, the Twitter feed is less chronological, less useful, and less content-dense than Facebook, and that's saying something considering that Twitter is supposedly a 140char service. I had to scroll through 3 pages of crap before I got to the actual chronological twitter you speak of. Also, they have this horrible habit of making tweets with a white background, then a tiny grey divider between tweets so it can be hard to tell at a glance when you've moved from one section of content to another -- much like when GMail went from colored message threading to all-monochrome.

Bombthecat 10y ago
When you had to scroll through three pages to get what you want. They archived what they wanted.No?