What you need to know
- Twitter has replaced the “home” and “latest” feeds on its home screen with a new TikTok-style interface.
- The redesigned home screen now features a ‘For you’ and ‘Following’ feed. The former will be your default feed every time you open the app.
- This new feed shows Tweets from accounts you follow in random order, and shows you the Tweets you might like.
- Twitter is rolling out a new feed to iOS users first.
Twitter probably made the right decision when it retired the tabbed timeline view just days after launching it earlier last year, and for good reason. Algorithmic feeds have made it harder by default to find the latest tweets from accounts you follow, but Twitter is finally going that route again on iOS, at least at first.
Elon Musk’s Twitter today unveiled a new tabbed interface for its home screen. The interface divides the feed into Algorithms and Inverse Time Series tabs, with the former being the default view. This means that every time you launch the app, you’ll be greeted with tweets from both friends and strangers.
See the tweets you want to see. Starting today on iOS, you can swipe between tabs to see Recommended Tweets in “For You” and Tweets from accounts you “Follow”.January 11, 2023
The social networking site appears to mimic rival TikTok’s signature moniker. Twitter’s new default feed is called “For you” and, you guessed it, it shows Tweets from people you follow and Tweets the service thinks are interesting to you. The other feed is called “Following” and provides Tweets in reverse chronological order. Previously, these were called “home” and “latest” respectively.
The previous interface allowed you to set the reverse chronological feed as your default view and it remained so even after closing and restarting the app.The latest update has been algorithmically placed each time you open Twitter, regardless of your previous settings.[For you]Tabs are always displayed first.
Given that history is a problem, this doesn’t work for users who prefer to see tweets in order by default. Last year, the same move received backlash, forcing Twitter to indefinitely discontinue its tabbed interface. Now that feature is back under a different name and will probably stay here.
