Twitter defaults to a For You web page now, identical to TikTok

Twitter is altering how you progress between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.

In a change rolling out to iOS customers first, the corporate has taken away the star button on the prime proper that allow you to change between two feeds. In its place are two tabs — one labeled “For You” and the opposite “Following” — and whenever you open the app, you’ll see the For You tab first.

For You, which shares a reputation with TikTok’s algorithmically-driven feed, is just like the previous “Home” possibility, which reveals you tweets from the folks you observe out of order, interspersed with tweets it thinks you could like. (This isn’t the primary time Twitter has copied a TikTok function.) Following is what was referred to as “Latest Tweets.”

While the change makes it simpler to modify between them, taking a single swipe as a substitute of some faucets, there’s something that’s been misplaced — should you set your app to indicate you the “Latest Tweets,” that may usually stick.

Now, nevertheless, even whenever you shut the app and reopen it, you’re proven the For You feed. That is a little bit of a bummer; there are lots of people who far desire the reverse-chronological feed, and former makes an attempt to eliminate it or make it more durable to entry have usually sparked ire. While this variation does technically make it simpler to get to from the algorithmic timeline, it positively makes the latter possibility more durable to disregard.

The previous interface with the star button remains to be accessible on Android and internet, not less than for now.

The change partially makes good on a promise from Twitter CEO Elon Musk. On December twentieth, he tweeted that the “Main timeline should allow for an easy sideways swipe between top, latest, trending and topics that you follow,” and stated that the corporate can be “making this change soon.” So far, there’s no choice to swipe to trending and adopted subjects, although the trending web page is just a few faucets away within the search menu.