Twitter is introducing algorithmic timelines for the first time, doing away with a almost ten-year history of showing updates in chronological order.
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His performance, unveiled after markets closed, disappointed investors, already anxious about her. The action of Twitter was losing up to nearly seven percent in the post-session transactions on the New York Stock Exchange.
To make it work, the user needs to flip on the feature in settings.
Twitter is tweaking the way that tweets appear in its users’ timelines in its latest attempt to broaden the appeal of its messaging service. When asked how he is splitting up his time between Twitter and the mobile payments company he co-founded, Square Inc.
Twitter is making changes in attempts to bring in new users, such as surfacing interesting tweets to the top of timelines. This will enable the users to see the tweets they are most likely to care about at the top of the timeline when they open Twitter after a while.
Facebook and Twitter are quite different.
For years, we’re familiar with the vertical timeline that shows reverse-chronology of tweets. That’s certainly a lot better than Facebook’s algorithmically sorted news feed, but may not make hardcore Twitter users happy.
It’s official – Twitter is slightly moving away from being a hosepipe of real-time wittering. Simply go to your account settings and then tap on ‘Show me the best Tweets first’ you will find below the timeline.
Will you be using the new timeline or would you prefer things stay the way they are? “Twitter is live: live commentary, live connections, live conversations”. Twitter is about who and what you follow.
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More than 20 brokerages cut price targets on the shares, which have fallen more than 35 percent in less than six weeks and more than 50 percent since chief executive Jack Dorsey returned in July. Dorsey, who also serves as CEO of Square and has presided over numerous layoffs in the last nine months, told listeners on the call that the company has a plan that will stabilize the financials.
