<story><title>Twitter&apos;s new timeline feature</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/2016/never-miss-important-tweets-from-people-you-follow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I know I&amp;#x27;m going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don&amp;#x27;t check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for ages. Otherwise, I can easily miss extremely relevant&amp;#x2F;interesting things.&lt;p&gt;If this feature allows me to quickly get an overview over the most interesting tweets (and I can turn it off when I am following the feed more closely) that&amp;#x27;s great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blorgle</author><text>The problem here is the assumption that the algorithm will do a half decent job at showing you important tweets.&lt;p&gt;Judging by the facebook algorithm, which is utterly terrible at showing important stuff, it seems unlikely. Just another step in the facebookification of twitter to appease short term oriented shareholders who rated the growth too highly.&lt;p&gt;It is already a mess, can&amp;#x27;t see how adding this will improve the situation. Opposite of the minimal, fast, realtime platform that so many flocked to in the first place. I&amp;#x27;m close to deleting accounts for both.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter&apos;s new timeline feature</title><url>https://blog.twitter.com/2016/never-miss-important-tweets-from-people-you-follow</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>DangerousPie</author><text>I know I&amp;#x27;m going against the grain here but I think a feature like this actually makes a lot of sense.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I am not as heavy a Twitter user as other people here, but I hate how easily I can miss important tweets if I just don&amp;#x27;t check my feed for a few hours. Since I am also on a different time zone than many people I follow, I end up having to catch up on hours of tweets every morning by scrolling down the page for ages. Otherwise, I can easily miss extremely relevant&amp;#x2F;interesting things.&lt;p&gt;If this feature allows me to quickly get an overview over the most interesting tweets (and I can turn it off when I am following the feed more closely) that&amp;#x27;s great!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>talideon</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t think people care so much about the addition of anything so much as the lack of any possibility of permanently turning it off. At least in this case, it&amp;#x27;s optional, but the related &amp;#x27;stuff you might have missed&amp;#x27; &amp;#x27;feature&amp;#x27; isn&amp;#x27;t.&lt;p&gt;I personally really hate this kind of thing as it clutters up my feed, and it &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; gives anything I care about. The value of Twitter for me come from the reverse-chronological feed, not this kind of thing.</text></comment>