Bravo, Twitter! Something that
users are asking for made it in: "Twitter will now let you completely turn off its algorithmic timeline. So now you can
revert completely to a reverse-chronological feed of only people you follow."
Twitter has made a surprise change to how it shows tweets to its users, following a viral thread earlier today that discussed ways to reverse the platform’s algorithmic timeline. Now, when you uncheck the settings box reading “Show the best tweets first,” Twitter will completely revert your timeline to a non-algorithmic, reverse-chronological order, which is how Twitter was originally designed and operated for years until the company introduced a default algorithmic model in early 2016.
The company's hand was being gently forced. A few weeks ago, Andy Baio
discovered and publicized Twitter search flags that generated a reverse-chronological snapshot of your follows, and last week Enna Kinema
discovered that you could vanquish suggested tweets and highlights by muting their metadata tags.
