By Ivan Mehta
We might finally get whatve been asking for from Twitter: a chronological timeline. The company tweeted saying its testing a button to display tweets by post time, instead of showing an algorithmically picked feed.
According to Jack Dorsey, the companys CEO, this feature is currently available to only a small number of iOS users and all Twitter employees.
The button will appear on the top right corner of ones feed. Upon clicking it, one will see options for switch to latest tweets and content preferences.
However, fans of the curated feed (if there are any) shouldnt worry, as the button allows you to switch back quickly.
Twitter introduced the algorithmic timeline back in 2016 in and faced a lot of backlash. Since then, people have been demanding the return of the chronological timeline. Thankfully, Twitter confirmed it was working on a solution for this a few months ago. In September, the company introduced a toggle in settings, to turn Show best Tweets first off.
Twitter has finally worked out a better way to give people an option to switch between two feeds and It seems like people are pretty happy about this:
https://twitter.com/gasca/status/1057762099001122816
The change also brings a floating compose tweet button to iOS on the bottom right corner to accommodate the timeline switcher button.
This timeline switcher is refreshing to see from Twitter, as it gives users a way to try out both algorithmic and chronological timelines, and pick whats best for them.
There is no information on when this feature will be available to all. Well update the post as soon as we hear from Twitter. I, for one, cant wait to try the new timeline options out.
This article has been previously published on The Next Web.