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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:28PM (#12567293)
The feeds of both are whatever the algo thinks - which will be some compromise between what you want and what the owner of the algo wants.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by tkxxx7 on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#12567384)
What is algorithm-driven in my twitter feed? The 'While you were away' stuff at the top? Other than that, as far as I know it's always been a chronological feed of whoever I want.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:58PM (#12567519)
Are you sure? http://fortune.com/2016/03/20/twitter-algorithm-social-marke...

If you don't even notice it, the algo has got you...

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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by msravi on Friday September 23, 2016 @11:14PM (#12569264)
Wow, didn't know that either. But I don't "follow" people. Rather, I simply add them to different lists (finance, news, science, tech, right, left, etc.) and use tweetdeck to follow the multiple lists.

I wonder if they're also messing with the lists... In any case, as far as I can tell, I seem to be getting all the tweets of people in the list in chronological order.

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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by tkxxx7 on Saturday September 24, 2016 @07:48PM (#12573152)
that's a good point too, I have a couple lists I look at for close friends and such and only go onto the timeline every now and then
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by tkxxx7 on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:06PM (#12567559)
Oh, wow. Does this effect third-party clients as well? I use Echofon almost exclusively.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by gaius on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:15PM (#12567619)
I can't imagine not - would Twitter give people an easy way to avoid sponsored content etc? That's one reason they cut off all the devs.
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