Twitter veers into Facebook territory with curated timelines for everyone<article>
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<p>Facebook’s News Feed is filled with posts from people you’re not friends with. You might see a photo of a stranger that your mom commented on, or a random political argument between your high school best friend and some random. The battle for a chronological News Feed has been lost, but at least Twitter was safe. That’s no longer the case.</p><p>Twitter announced Thursday night that after months of showing you tweets it thought you might like, the network has decided to pursue a more algorithmic timeline. That means you’ll see tweets from people you don’t follow, based on a variety of factors.</p><p>“We recently ran experiments that showed different types of content in your timeline: recommended tweets, accounts, and topics,” Twitter product lead Trevor O’Brien said in a
Thursday night blog post. “Testing indicated that most people enjoy seeing tweets from accounts they may not follow, based on signals such as activity from accounts you do follow, the popularity of the tweets, and how people in your network interact with them. These experiments now inform the timeline you see today.”</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2835279/twitter-veers-into-facebook-territory-with-curated-timelines-for-everyone.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Twitter veers into Facebook territory with curated timelines for everyone
