Twitter defaults to a For You web page now, similar 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 high proper that allow you to swap between two feeds. As a substitute 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 {old} “Residence” possibility, which reveals you tweets from the folks you observe out of order, interspersed with tweets it thinks it’s possible you’ll like. (This isn’t the primary time Twitter has copied a TikTok feature.) Following is what was once referred to as “Newest Tweets.”

Whereas the change makes it simpler to change between them, taking a single swipe as a substitute of some faucets, there’s something that’s been misplaced — in the event you set your app to point out you the “Newest Tweets,” that might sometimes stick.

Now, nonetheless, even whenever you shut the app and reopen it, you’re proven the For You feed. That could be a little bit of a bummer; there are lots of people who far desire the reverse-chronological feed, and previous attempts to do away with it or make it more durable to entry have sometimes sparked ire. Whereas this modification does technically make it simpler to get to from the algorithmic timeline, it positively makes the latter possibility more durable to disregard.

The {old} interface with the star button remains to be accessible on Android and net, no less than for now.

The change partially makes good on a promise from Twitter CEO Elon Musk. On December twentieth, he tweeted that the “Foremost timeline ought to enable for a straightforward sideways swipe between high, newest, trending and matters that you just observe,” and mentioned that the corporate can be “making this modification quickly.” To this point, there’s no choice to swipe to trending and adopted matters, although the trending web page is just a few faucets away within the search menu.