People spoke and Twitter relented: The controversial “For You” timeline is no longer the default on any platform.
In January, Twitter began showing the algorithm’s “For You” timeline as the default on web and mobile. Users still had the option to switch to the “Following” timeline, which showed a chronological list of tweets from the accounts they were following, but “For You” was again the default when the Twitter app was closed and reopened. It shows.
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many users (including us) did not thank(opens in new tab) This is so important, and Twitter recently relented by defaulting to the last timeline selected by users, on the web only(opens in new tab)The company is now updating its iOS and Android apps with the same functionality.
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Launching the Twitter app on iOS or Android now shows the last selected timeline view. You’ll need to update her Twitter app on iOS and Android to the latest version to see the changes.
However, it still doesn’t work perfectly. I have a list (which appears as a separate timeline view next to “For You” and “Following”), and when I close the Twitter app and reopen it, it goes back to boom: always scary. “For You” Algorithmic Timeline. Perhaps an option in the settings to permanently switch to the desired timeline view would be a better way to do this, Twitter.
