{"id":799883,"date":"2023-01-21T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/01\/21\/twitter-to-stop-forcing-users-onto-for-you-timeline\/"},"modified":"2023-01-21T10:06:28","modified_gmt":"2023-01-21T10:06:28","slug":"twitter-to-stop-forcing-users-onto-for-you-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2023\/01\/21\/twitter-to-stop-forcing-users-onto-for-you-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter to stop forcing users onto &#8216;For You&#8217; timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday announced that the upcoming update of the micro-blogging platform will make it less mandatory for users to use the &#8220;For You&#8221; algorithmic timeline.<\/p>\n<p>Musk tweeted: &#8220;Next Twitter update will remember whether you were on For You (ie recommended), Following or list you made &#038; stop switching you back to recommended tweets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several users expressed their thoughts on his post.<\/p>\n<p>While one user said, &#8220;thank god because it always pushes me back to for you, which isn&#8217;t useful to me&#8221;, another commented, &#8220;thank you because the last thing I want to see is tweets from an algorithm as the default&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the platform announced that it has rolled out &#8220;For You&#8221; and &#8220;Following&#8221; tabs updates on Android, which it already a rolled out to the web interface and on iOS last week.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by TechCrunch, Musk on January 8 had promised a feature that will allow users to easily bookmark tweets and now the platform is rolling it out on iOS.<\/p>\n<p>The new design displays the bookmark option under the expanded tweet view which makes it easier for users to add a post to their bookmarks.<\/p>\n<p>It is currently visible only on the iOS app, but it is expected to be rolled out soon on Android and the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Saturday announced that the upcoming update of the micro-blogging platform will make it less mandatory for users to use the &#8220;For You&#8221; algorithmic timeline. Musk tweeted: &#8220;Next Twitter update will remember whether you were on For You (ie recommended), Following or list you made &#038; stop switching you back to recommended tweets.&#8221; Several users expressed their thoughts on his post. While one user said, &#8220;thank god because it always pushes me back to for you, which isn&#8217;t useful to me&#8221;, another commented, &#8220;thank you because the last thing I want to see is tweets from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}