Twitter is altering how you progress between the algorithmically-driven timeline and the reverse chronological one and making the algorithmic feed the default.

In a change rolling out to iOS customers first, the corporate has taken away the star button on the high proper that allow you to swap between two feeds. As a replacement are two tabs — one labeled “For You” and the opposite “Following” — and once you open the app, you’ll see the For You tab first.

For You, which shares a reputation with TikTok’s algorithmically-driven feed, is much like the previous “Residence” possibility, which exhibits you tweets from the folks you observe out of order, interspersed with tweets it thinks you might like. (This isn’t the primary time Twitter has copied a TikTok function.) Following is what was once referred to as “Newest Tweets.”

Whereas the change makes it simpler to change between them, taking a single swipe as a substitute of some faucets, there’s something that’s been misplaced — should you set your app to indicate you the “Newest Tweets,” that may sometimes stick.

Now, nevertheless, even once you shut the app and reopen it, you’re proven the For You feed. That may be a little bit of a bummer; there are lots of people who far choose the reverse-chronological feed, and earlier makes an attempt to do away with it or make it tougher to entry have sometimes sparked ire. Whereas this modification does technically make it simpler to get to from the algorithmic timeline, it undoubtedly makes the latter possibility tougher to disregard.

The previous interface with the star button remains to be accessible on Android and net, no less than for now.

The change partially makes good on a promise from Twitter CEO Elon Musk. On December twentieth, he tweeted that the “Foremost timeline ought to enable for a simple sideways swipe between high, newest, trending and matters that you just observe,” and mentioned that the corporate could be “making this modification quickly.” To this point, there’s no choice to swipe to trending and adopted matters, although the trending web page is only some faucets away within the search menu.