Twitter is a widely used social networking platform
that has been active for some time now. The world is at Twitter and the frenzy
of this social networking site extends from students, celebrities, to even
politicians. It has become a platform for active discussion and someday it may
become even more.
Twitter has incidentally started rolling out the
“While you were away” feature for Android users. This new Twitter
feature which was earlier having an iOS version, displays
a gist of the top trending Tweets that you might have missed during your
absence tweeted from the accounts you follow.
This new functionality also symbolises a change in
Twitter's Newsfeed that has been displaying all the content from the different
users chronologically so far. With the new feature i.e. “While you were away” feature will allow you to view all the
important tweets that you might have missed out on in a non-chronological
fashion just like the Facebook Newsfeed.
The official post by twitter is here:
Twitter has been working to improve
its services and compete well with other social network websites, specifically
Facebook. It has been focussing on multimedia as well with video integrations and photo filters like Instagram.
Twitter was reported stating ,"Our objective is to help you keep up – or make up the lost posts – regardless of the amount of time you spend on Twitter. With a couple of changes to the timeline we think we can improve the extent to which we deliver without losing the vision of Twitter”.
Seeing how twitter is actively trying to enhance the user experience it
has a great future indeed. Twitter has been a forerunner in the digital media
in terms of bringing out flash news. Also the amount of active users on Twitter
challenges that of Facebook and this has enabled Twitter to grow by leaps and
bounds.
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