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TWITTER HAS GIVEN its strongest indication yet that it may introduce some kind of Facebook-style curated feed for users.
Speaking today, the company’s chief financial officer said that the traditional Twitter timeline which is organised in reverse chronological order is “not the most relevant experience for a user”.
Twitter has used the reverse chronological order for tweets ever since it began 8 years ago, but has recently been looking at ways to organise content and highlight the most interesting tweets. One such method has been its decision to show tweets from accounts you don’t follow in the main feed, something that has annoyed many users.
It is unlikely that such an option would replace the traditional feed but is likely instead to act as a complement to it.
Aside from a new-look timeline, a better search function and private chat functions may be some new features that Twitter is also working on.
Twitter’s CFO Anthony Noto has said that the company’s new head of Product, Daniel Graf, has made improving the service’s search capabilities one of his top priorities for next year, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Speaking at the Citi Global Technology Conference in New York, Noto hinted at the possibility of the site improving its search capabilities to help people find topic-specific content.
Twitter’s CEO Dick Costolo offered a reason for the change to the timeline:
The possibility of group chats being introduced was also hinted at. Currently, users can only send a direct message to one account at a time and was a section Twitter had neglected for a while, but the popularity of instant messaging apps meant it now has a more prominent role.
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The word in the local neighbourhood is it’s the “Cream Crackers” that’s doing the damage, was the same again a few weeks ago. Sure why not?, this culture is vital to the Irish public and must be protected at all cost.
@Alberto Balsam: they cudabean elocucted at that boss. Them lines wooden b copper, more like a galvanised steal!
@Alberto Balsam: Taking the biscuit again. Ballybrack Says No (to work and mortgages) likely culprits. Rob everything.
@Alberto Balsam: Of course that’s the word locally. Never seen an area yet that will blame their own. It’s always someone else.
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Not me,I work,I have a mortgage,looks like you fell flat on your face with that one,yet again.
@P. V. Aglue: pity they weren’t
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: I live in Ballybrack, had a mortgage, paid it in full 20 years ago when I was 33, don’t tar the majority with the few.
@Andrew Giles: in fairness.
With the lot in the government we are heading steadily backward.
@Lei tatt: were we ever moving forward under the governments we have had over the decades..
@Lei tatt: that’s individual behaviour
@Lei tatt: which government TD chucked the shipping trolley on to the wires.
@paulie: shopping.
@paulie: at this stage I’d say they’re all suspects.
What time is yer man from the airport meltdown due in court? Can’t wait to hear the excuse….
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Lukas Kaunietis of no fixed abode. Would that be Lithuanian then?
I wonder was it vandalism or was it crime, i.e. theft of the cables. Not that vandalism isn’t a crime.
@Rob Goodbody: shopping trolley rob.
@Rob Goodbody: was a problem in the UK for years. Remote stretches of motorway between junctions, where cables for street lights were regularly liberated
and Irish Rail can’t deliver the rail line from Athenry in Galway to Collooney in Sligo to civilised people in the Western seaboard.
More CCTV’s required and more security.
Oh. Not Pantograph Bliss then. Shocking.
@Sherry Adams – Norn Iron Drag Artiste: Does the Journal pay your mortgage?
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