![]() Not to be too cynical, but it feels like this icon choice was driven by a desire to hide this option while maintaining plausible deniability that the option had been hidden. What a bizarre icon for the options to control the essential nature of how you view Twitter. You had to go into the cryptically-iconned “✨” menu (the “sparkle menu”?), and tap “Pin your Latest timeline”, which was described thus: “The latest Tweets from people you follow will be one swipe away from Home.”įirst, I had no idea what the hell the “✨” button did before this. But by default, the Home/Latest Tweets header wasn’t shown, and you only saw the algorithmic Home feed, with no indication that there was an option to switch. You could either tap or swipe to switch between them. The new feature defaulted to only showing you the “Home” timeline, but gave you an option to put a tab controller atop your feed with two options: “Home” and “Latest Tweets”. This is the feed that most long-time Twitter users think defines what Twitter is. “Latest” is the timeline with tweets from accounts you follow, in chronological order. I see some tweets from minutes ago mixed in with tweets from almost 24 hours ago. You get mostly tweets from popular accounts, including some, perhaps even many, that you don’t even follow, and the tweets appear in no discernible chronology. “Home” is Twitter’s name for an algorithmically-generated timeline of “top tweets”. ![]() I think the way the new, now-abandoned (at least temporarily) timeline worked is as follows, but I’m not sure. I’d been playing around with this change on Twitter’s iPhone app all weekend, and I’m still confused. We’ve switched the timeline back and removed the tabbedĮxperience for now while we explore other options. We heard you –– some of you always want to see latest Tweetsįirst. #TWEETBOT VS TWITTER APP UPDATE#I would like to talk to the zookeeper that hired the baboon thatįast forward to today, and here’s an update from Twitter Support: We’ll share your feedback and request with the team. Quickly access the Latest timeline by swiping left on Home. The Home timeline will be pinned first by default, but you can ![]() When asked in a reply why it always reverts to “Home” when you relaunch the app, Twitter Support responded: Tap the ✨ icon to pin (or unpin) the Latest timeline to your Home #TWEETBOT VS TWITTER APP ANDROID#The Home and Latest timelines are now just a swipe away forĮveryone on iOS, and soon on Android and web. Twitter’s Confusing New, but Hopefully Now Abandoned, ‘Home/Latest’ Timeline Monday, 14 March 2022 ![]()
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