Twitter rolls back its decision to force you into the out-of-order timeline

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Last week, Twitter introduced one of its worst product decisions in a while: the service would default to showing the algorithmically served Home feed while the reverse-chronological Latest feed was accessible in a separate tab. The change, which was available first on iOS and was set to arrive soon" on Android and the web, made it more difficult to view tweets in chronological order. Following significant pushback, Twitter announced Monday that it would be reverting things to the way they used to be.

We heard you - some of you always want to see latest Tweets first," Twitter said in a tweet on its support account. We've switched the timeline back and removed the tabbed experience for now while we explore other options."

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