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When you choose to follow another Twitter user, that user's tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main Twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-cereal updates, interesting new links, music recommendations, even musings on the future of education.
Reverse chronological order used to be the default format on Twitter's timeline, but it was changed in 2016. Twitter cites user feedback as the reason for the change, and it coincides with a viral ...
Now, Twitter has announced that in the coming weeks it will start testing a "way to switch between a timeline of Tweets that are most relevant for you and a timeline of the latest Tweets."
You could quickly view the highlights if you think there's a tweet you missed, and revert to the chronological order to view posts the way they were meant to be seen. Twitter test makes it easier ...
Twitter announces it had surpassed 200 million monthly active users. Twitter hit 100 million monthly active users in September 2011. [69] 2013: March 24: Product: Line breaks [70] [71] [72] 2013: April 18: Product: Twitter launches a music app called Twitter Music for the iPhone. [73] 2013: June 13: Product: Shutdown of public site API "1.0 ...
Twitter, officially known as X since 2023, is a social networking service.It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. [5] [6] Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts commonly known as "tweets" (officially "posts") and like other users' content. [7]
Some websites allow Twitter to grab metadata from the webpage linked to in a tweet, including Wikipedia articles. Beginning in 2012, tweets linking to partnered websites would show, below the content of the tweet, expanded media: an excerpt of a linked news article or an embedded video.
Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...