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Twitter finally brings back the chronological timeline – Daily Mail


In September Twitter announced is testing Facebook-style replies and status indicators that show you who is online.

The update colour-coordinates replies to make response threads easier to navigate, while new status lights shine green to indicate you are logged on.

The changes, only available to a select number of trial users for now, are part of the social media giant’s efforts to make its platform ‘more conversational’.

In August Twitter built a new tool that suggests people to unfollow on its social network.

The firm says the feature is designed to help users remove accounts from their timeline they rarely interact with, creating a ‘more relevant’ experience.

It was tested by the social media giant on a small batch of users but it is not known if or when it will be rolled out.

Also in August, Twitter started banning a huge number of accounts, with many users taking to the site to bemoan the loss of hundreds of followers in a single day.

The cull had such an impact on numbers that the ‘Twitterverse’ was swept with the hashtag #TwitterPurge. 

It marks the latest in a string of moves from the site to clean up the platform as the San-Francisco based firm now places a premium on integrity among its users. 

In June Twitter overhauled the way users tune into live experiences on the app, particularly the Explore and Moments tabs in its app.

This included putting breaking news at the top of a user’s timeline. Moments also showed multiple timelines divided into recaps, commentary and live tweets.

It also made it easier for users to identify political campaign ads.

They created the ‘Ads Transparency Center’ which allows anyone to view ads that have been put on Twitter, with greater transparency about US federal election campaign ads.

In May it was revealed Twitter is building a tool that allows users to send secret messages to one another.

The feature, called ‘Secret Conversation,’ was buried inside Twitter’s Android application package, which often contain code for tools that a company may be in the process of testing, according to TechCrunch .

The code was first spotted by Jane Manchun Wong, a computer science student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, who tweeted that it appeared Twitter may be working on ‘end-to-end encrypted secret direct messages’.

The company also launched a new behaviour monitoring system that relegates posts from abusive accounts.

In March Twitter confirmed it was introducing a new algorithmic news feature to timelines.

The feature is being curated by humans for now, but eventually it will be strictly algorithmic.

The curated timelines show up as a module on the top of users’ news feeds.

In February the company updated the app so it was easier to save tweets and read them later.

The social media giant launched a new bookmark feature for all users around the world.

To bookmark a tweet users can tap on the ‘Share’ icon and select ‘Add Tweet to Bookmarks.’

When they want to find it later, tap ‘Bookmarks’ from the profile icon menu.

Twitter also added a few new features to the share button, including the option to share a tweet via DM, email or text.



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