Twitter defaults to a For You page now, just like TikTok
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#67PK9)
RIP to the Twitter star. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Twitter is changing how you move between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.
In a change rolling out to iOS users first, the company has taken away the star button at the top right that let you switch between two feeds. In its place are two tabs - one labeled For You" and the other Following" - and when you open the app, you'll see the For You tab first.
Gif: Jay Peters / The Verge What swiping between the two timelines looks like.For You, which shares a name with TikTok's algorithmically-driven feed, is similar to the old Home" option, which shows you tweets from the people you follow out of order, interspersed with tweets it...