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by raydev 1255 days ago
> The "For You" timeline is only for Elon

The "For You" timeline is a new name for the "Home" timeline that's been around forever. And now it's easier to get to the chronological feed ("Following"), the first actual UX improvement to the site since the acquisition.
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harmmonica 1255 days ago
You can‘t default to the “following” tab anymore (every time you open the app it shows “for you” by default), which likely puts it in the “for Elon” camp. Or maybe there’s an even-more-buried setting to default to “following” than tapping the old (were they?) “stars”? But definitely not good UX when users have to tap “following” every time they want to only see, ya know, who they’re actually following (aka what they’re explicitly interested in).
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WillPostForFood 1255 days ago
It doesn't work that way for me (Mac/Chrome). Whatever tab I choose stays active, and persists through opening and closing tabs. Only goes back to "For You" when logging out and back in.
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wyclif 1255 days ago
Yeah, the "For You is only for Elon" thing isn't a smart take. Makes me think he hasn't been around Twitter very long. From my perch down here in southeast Asia, Twitter is better than it's ever been at this point. A lot snappier and faster for users outside of North America.
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michelb 1255 days ago
Maybe because it doesn't seem to be loading every tweet and mention from people I'm following. Quite a lot of threads are broken (at least for me) because a lot of tweets aren't being loaded anymore. The amount of posts on my timeline has been decimated, but if I go to the individuals I follow, I can see that they have tweeted, I just don't see them in my timeline.
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rsynnott 1255 days ago
It does seem to have gotten substantially _worse_, though. In 15 years of using Twitter, up to late last year, I had blocked maybe three 'real' users (that is actual established accounts with followers, not FirstNameBunchOfNumbers). I mostly used it via Tweetbot, but if I went to the website, the algorithmic timeline was... not that useful, but basically inoffensive.

Then between the takeover and giving up entirely at the end of November, I was hitting block every time I looked at the website. For instance, I'd never had to trouble to block Elon Musk before, but he was suddenly constantly popping up.

I'm pretty sure that some settings got fairly dramatically tweaked.

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