Social media giant Twitter recently made an unnecessary change that changed the order of posts on the homepage and disappointed millions of users. It has been learned that this feature, which makes it difficult to see the posts chronologically in the time flow, will finally be taken back.
Twitter has stopped offering tabbed homepage
The social media platform has announced that it will revert the sharing order that users will see on its homepage. Dubbed the “Tabbed Experience,” this annoying feature offered an algorithmic ranking that looked at Twitter habits.
With the latest update of the Twitter app for iPhone, the “Recent Tweets” tab has been removed . Users can revert to the old timeline with the option to show the most recent tweets at the top in chronological order.
The new timeline update, tested for iOS users, will wait for a while on Twitter’s new upcoming features shelves. Twitter shared the following in a tweet from its support account:
“We heard you, some of you always want to see the latest tweets first. While exploring other options, we rolled back the timeline (update) and removed the tabbed experience for now.”
Twitter first started rolling out its algorithmic timeline (or tabbed homepage) in 2016, and in 2018 it introduced a feature that lets users switch between algorithmic and reverse-chronological feeds.
Twitter also announced that it is testing new accessibility features to make alt text descriptions significantly more useful and prominent to everyone on the platform. With the change, an icon that says “alt” will be given to images with explanations, and when this icon is clicked, the description will appear.
According to Twitter, about 3 percent of users will try out new accessibility features for a month and will be available for Android, iOS and web in early April.
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