News JVTech Do you hate the latest news from Twitter? Good news for you!
Published on 01/25/2023 at 17:05
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Among Twitter’s newest additions is a “For You” tab that isn’t to everyone’s liking. Good news, the social network should soon stop imposing it by default. An announcement that should please many tweeters.
Since being acquired by Elon Musk last November, the social network Twitter is doing everything to reinvent itself. This goes through new features that are not always to the liking of users, long accustomed to a relatively sober interface. Those looking for a more advanced experience could, until recently, go through third-party applications like Tweetdeck or Twitterific, but Twitter has decided to cut off access to its API for these platforms.
From now on, users are therefore “stuck” with the web interface and the official application of Twitter. And that means being forced into the new “For You” tab.
“For you”, the tab that annoys on Twitter
Inspired by TikTok’s “For You” tab, Twitter’s “For you” has the same name in English: “For you”. This is’an algorithmic timelinewhich means that it uses user preferences to suggest content. Likes, retweets and other interactions make the “For you” tab different from the one named “Subscription” and which focuses, meanwhile, specifically on tweets from accounts to which the user is subscribed.
Since this update, Twitter opened by default on “For you”, which annoyed users. But the situation has just changedin any case, on the web version of the social network.
The controversial tab is still present, but less intrusive on Twitter
As early as January 21, Elon Musk announced on the platform that an upcoming Twitter update would allow the site to keep in memory the last tab displayed by the user within his browser.
Next Twitter update will remember whether you were on For You (ie recommended), Following or list you made & stop switching you back to recommended tweets
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 21, 2023
This update will not have taken long, since the Twitter Support account announced that it was effective from January 24. “Starting today on the web, if you close Twitter on the ‘For You’ or ‘Subscribe’ tabs, you’ll return to the timeline you last opened,” the post explains.
Were any of you (all of you) asking for your timeline to default to where you left it last?
Starting today on web, if you close Twitter on the “For you” or “Following” tabs, you will return to whichever timeline you had open last. iOS and Android coming soon! https://t.co/uKz9DpNRux
— Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) January 24, 2023
In sum, no more juggling between tabs or installing a plugin to disable “For you”. At least, on a browser: indeed, this option does not exist on Twitter’s iOS and Android apps, at least for now. The social network states that updates will soon be available to benefit from the same proposal.
It is quite pleasing to see that Twitter keeps listening to users and decides to optimize features that are not always popular. In the end, the “For you” tab remains relevant, but it therefore becomes less intrusive.
