Twitter steals its “For you” feed from TikTok

Twitter has announced another update to its interface. This time around, the social network is including a new “For You” feed as another attempt to offer an alternative to the chronological feed.

Twitter has been trying for a few years now to promote A new type of streaming that is managed with an algorithm, which is obviously much easier to deal with by his teams. But every timeModification affects the time flowUsers raise the shield. Yet another shift threatens to cause fiery returns once again.

Twitter and TikTok, same battle

Because yes, support for Twitter – which has become the communication branch of the social network by default Since the arrival of Elon Musk and his employee Machete– Just announced the deployment of a new feature. From now on, it will be streams Separated into two separate feeds on the homepage: The classic chronological order, which can be found in a tab dedicated to this, but above all New broadcast “For You” displayed by default on the platform.

See the tweets you want to see. Starting today on iOS, swipe between tabs to see tweets recommended to “you” or tweets from accounts you “follow”.

– Twitter Support January 11, 2023

This new organization of items is gradually being rolled out to users around the world, starting with by iOS. Also obviously US users, since our iPhones don’t show this new feed yet. immediately afterwards, Android and web versions will definitely be affected.

As a reminder, in the same way as the algorithmic flow currently called simply “Home”, the new “For You” flow will Mix popular Tweets from your follow-up with Tweets recommended by the platform Depending on your taste and the popularity of the tweets. however The time feed will always be easy to access under “Subscriptions”.

Thus, it is difficult to say whether users will welcome this thousandth change with open arms. No adjustment to the timeline was done welland previous attempts to copy TikTok features or Snapchat Like Stories Didn’t really work with Twitter. In the age of Elon Musk, Changes don’t really last longIn any case…