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I've been using twitter for years and had no idea this was an option. This is clearly deliberate - the option is nowhere in the settings menu, where one would l

I've been using twitter for years and had no idea this was an option. This is clearly deliberate - the option is nowhere in the settings menu, where one would look for this. The star icon gives no indication it is even clickable, and does not communicate "sort order". There are fairly standard icons for that.

guerrilla 5y ago
It's in the same place it was for Facebook.
- qwertox 5y ago
  Many of us don't use Facebook.
giobox 5y ago
I only learned what the "Sparkle Button" (that really does appear to be its actual name) does the other week in an article discussing its terrible design too. Instantly earned a spot in my personal UX Hall of Shame. Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious...
- deleted 5y ago
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- ramesh31 5y ago
  >Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious... Holy crap, I can actually use Twitter again. Thanks.
caslon 5y ago
Every time I have made a twitter account, I have seen a box along the lines of "Viewing your Home feed. For the latest tweets, switch to Latest." I think in this case it might be that you clicked through a pretty hard to miss box.
- jacobsenscott 5y ago
  I did not. The algorithmic feed was not an option when I joined twitter. They were still basically a group sms system, and probably still running on Rails! Also I was not given the option to switch to it when it became available. They just switched everyone.
  - caslon 5y ago
    > They just switched everyone. It also appeared on multiple of my accounts that were made before the switch, so this hypothesis also seems wrong.
- layer8 5y ago
  People tend to not create new Twitter accounts all the time.
  - caslon 5y ago
    It also appeared on multiple of my accounts that were made before the switch, so that also is irrelevant.
threeseed 5y ago
a) Why would it be in the Settings menu ? For many of us it's a feature you change multiple times a day whilst using the app. b) The icon is exactly the same style as all of the other icons in the app. If you couldn't work out that the picture is clickable how did you know how to search or access messages. I'm actually confused how you use any mobile app given they mostly all have this style. c) It is not a traditional sort ordering though. Using the curated mode brings in entirely new content into the feed that is not in chronological e.g. followed topics, recommended topics, greater emphasis on retweets.

guerrilla 5y ago

It's in the same place it was for Facebook.

qwertox 5y ago
Many of us don't use Facebook.

giobox 5y ago

I only learned what the "Sparkle Button" (that really does appear to be its actual name) does the other week in an article discussing its terrible design too. Instantly earned a spot in my personal UX Hall of Shame. Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious...

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ramesh31 5y ago
>Click the "Sparkle Button" to change the timeline sort algorithm. Right, totally obvious... Holy crap, I can actually use Twitter again. Thanks.

caslon 5y ago

Every time I have made a twitter account, I have seen a box along the lines of "Viewing your Home feed. For the latest tweets, switch to Latest." I think in this case it might be that you clicked through a pretty hard to miss box.

jacobsenscott 5y ago
I did not. The algorithmic feed was not an option when I joined twitter. They were still basically a group sms system, and probably still running on Rails! Also I was not given the option to switch to it when it became available. They just switched everyone.
- caslon 5y ago
  > They just switched everyone. It also appeared on multiple of my accounts that were made before the switch, so this hypothesis also seems wrong.
layer8 5y ago
People tend to not create new Twitter accounts all the time.
- caslon 5y ago
  It also appeared on multiple of my accounts that were made before the switch, so that also is irrelevant.

threeseed 5y ago

a) Why would it be in the Settings menu ? For many of us it's a feature you change multiple times a day whilst using the app. b) The icon is exactly the same style as all of the other icons in the app. If you couldn't work out that the picture is clickable how did you know how to search or access messages. I'm actually confused how you use any mobile app given they mostly all have this style. c) It is not a traditional sort ordering though. Using the curated mode brings in entirely new content into the feed that is not in chronological e.g. followed topics, recommended topics, greater emphasis on retweets.