{"id":38272,"date":"2023-01-25T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38272"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:31:49","slug":"twitter-to-revert-hostile-for-you-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/25\/twitter-to-revert-hostile-for-you-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to Revert Hostile &ldquo;For You&rdquo; Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/twitter-elon-musk-algorithm-for-you-tab-1850026346\">Kyle Barr<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/twitter-elon-musk-algorithm-for-you-tab-1850026346\"><p>Twitter has reversed course on its extremely unpopular decision to make an algorithmically generated timeline the default for all Twitter users.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The change will start on the web version of Twitter before &ldquo;soon&rdquo; coming to the iOS and Android versions of the app. The move comes just two weeks after the company made the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TwitterSupport\/status\/1612966288300572672?s=20&amp;t=0cut7o_Rxr1yE1vTVTsyog\">much-maligned decision<\/a> to force feed users content based on stuff &ldquo;You might like.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not just that they made &ldquo;For You&rdquo; the default but also that it would keep switching you away from &ldquo;Following&rdquo; after you had selected it, either when returning to the app or if you were scrolling down the timeline but moved your finger slightly to one side.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&rsquo;t think this makes the official Twitter app usable, as it does not do a good job of loading all the tweets if you&rsquo;ve been away from the app for a while.<\/p>\n\n<p>It also wastes a chunk of valuable screen space showing the tab titles even though I never want to use a different tab.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/11\/twitter-makes-it-harder-to-choose-reverse-chronological-timeline\/\">Twitter Makes It Harder to Choose Reverse Chronological Timeline<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Barr: Twitter has reversed course on its extremely unpopular decision to make an algorithmically generated timeline the default for all Twitter users.[&#8230;]The change will start on the web version of Twitter before &ldquo;soon&rdquo; coming to the iOS and Android versions of the app. The move comes just two weeks after the company made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-25T21:31:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"b9259920-00e1-4ee6-b113-516e508decf6","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-01-25T21:31:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AuSWZIADhTuaxE1FuUI3s9g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2185,26,49],"class_list":["post-38272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-iosapp","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38273,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38272\/revisions\/38273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}