Twitter wants you to see the 'best' tweets first

Twitter hopes a small change to its timeline will make a big difference to its future - so get ready for algorithmic tweets at the top of your timeline

• Here's how to turn off Twitter's 'best tweets' feature

At first, Twitter was changing the timeline, and then it was not changing the timeline, and then not changing the timeline next week.

But Twitter has now confirmed it will be introducing a new feature that does change the way users view messages in their timeline, pushing algorithmically selected "best" tweets to the top.