A similar timeline thing recently appeared on G+. Not a Twitter or FB user, but do visit G+ once a week or so for a few minutes. Or did. Now everything is out

A similar timeline thing recently appeared on G+. Not a Twitter or FB user, but do visit G+ once a week or so for a few minutes. Or did. Now everything is out of order and a jumble of crazy including surfacing my own long past contributions over more recent ones. I doubt I'll be back. I can't speak directly to Twitter timelines but if it's anything similar I wouldn't use it. There may be a point to reducing noise and promoting relevant feeds. Maybe it has to happen to keep the view-able volume to a manageable level. Maybe. Or maybe the strategy was get everyone in the door and hooked, then start controlling what they see. And that is hugely valuable to both commerce and government. A/B testing aside, my prediction is that removing user control over what is seen backfires hugely and may provide an opening for competing services. Until they manage to lock the internet down to 4 approved services anyway. Which probably has at least been considered.