The response to the report about a new-type of Twitter timeline was overwhelmingly negative, with the hashtag #RIPTwitter suggesting many users of the micro-blogging site believe the changes would mean the death of the company.
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This would place Twitter’s feed more in line with the algorithm that now powers Facebook’s News Feed, a fact that was not overlooked by protesting users.
A new timeline would be the latest attempt from the San Francisco, California-based company to attract new users. It seems that this is one of the most popular request from the netizens.
People are upset by this, however, because small brands and Twitter addicts who use the service to build their online reputations will have to work twice as hard to get your attention. The other major change that was proposed was a move to change the character limits of Tweets from 140 characters to 10,000 – a suggestion that was also met with indignation by some users. At the time, users complained that this new format even included tweets from users they weren’t following and which weren’t sponsored.
But Dorsey came out to (sort of) help silence the #RIPTwitter hashtag.
The changes would focus on what Twitter thinks its users want to see, similar to how Facebook now operates, according to Buzzfeed. He also notes that the company “never” planned to reorder timelines. Twitter is about who & what you follow.
One user says he does not understand why Twitter wants to turn the microblogging site into “Facebook 2.0”. “By becoming more Twitter-y”. And whenever you pull down to refresh your stream, it’s back to the regular, reverse-chronological timeline. The development came after a report by BuzzFeed, which said Twitter is planning to introduce an algorithmic timeline as soon as next week.
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