Has your twitter timeline been acting differently lately? If you said yes, you are onto something, a bit strange. Twitter has been recently testing a new feature on their user’s timeline’s. Based on recent “experiments” they‘ve concluded that most twitter users respond well to recommended account suggestions. Twitter is customizing timeline’s by inserting suggested followers and their tweets. The information they gathered is based on who you follow and tweets you like.
In a blog post, Twitter released this statement regarding the “testing.”
“To help you keep up with what’s happening, we’ve been testing ways to include these Tweets in your timeline — ones we think you’ll find interesting or entertaining. We recently ran experiments that showed different types of content in your timeline: recommended Tweets, accounts and topics. Testing indicated that most people enjoy seeing Tweets from accounts they may not follow, based on signals such as activity from accounts you do follow, the popularity of the Tweets, and how people in your network interact with them.”
We’re testing & exploring ways to include Tweets in your timeline we think you’ll find interesting or entertaining: https://t.co/K9zqg5nTg0
— Twitter (@twitter) October 17, 2014
The post reveals that most experiments never make it to users. However, they will keep showing you tweets about what you want to see as the timeline progresses. But how are Twitter users reacting to the experiment. Find out here!
