Twitter’s For You timeline appears on desktop browsers now, too
by Jay Peters from The Verge - All Posts on (#67T24)
The new tabs are here. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter's new For You tab, which rolled out to iPhones and iPads on Tuesday, is now appearing on desktop web browsers.
The For You tab is the TikTok-inspired name for Twitter's algorithmically curated Home" tab, and on iOS, it's now the default tab you see when you close and reopen the app. You can still access the reverse-chronological list of the latest posts from the people you follow on the Following" tab (previously Latest"), though Twitter has removed the star icon to switch between the timelines.
For some, this change is now even more annoying since major third-party Twitter apps just stopped working, blocking people's escape from features or changes they don't like. As of Friday afternoon, developers of those apps are still...