{"id":154354,"date":"2016-02-08T08:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T06:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154354"},"modified":"2016-02-08T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T06:49:25","slug":"how-twitters-new-timeline-will-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/154354-how-twitters-new-timeline-will-work.html","title":{"rendered":"How Twitter&#8217;s new timeline will work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will introduce a new algorithmic timeline\u00a0to users, which will see tweets appear in a &#8220;Facebook-style&#8221; feed.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2016\/2\/6\/10927874\/twitter-algorithmic-timeline\" target=\"_blank\">The Verge<\/a><\/strong>, the new timeline will not present tweets in chronological order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The algorithm that will re-order your timeline is based on the one that ranks tweets for the &#8220;while you were away&#8221; feature that Twitter introduced a year ago,&#8221; sated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The new timeline will show the most popular posts first, and if users refresh the stream, it will return to a chronologically-ordered feed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This will be the new Twitter by default &#8211; but you will be allowed to opt out of the new timeline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Twitter<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/154136-kids-are-saying-goodbye-to-facebook-and-twitter.html\">Kids are saying goodbye to Facebook and Twitter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/151195-twitter-death-threats-can-lead-to-criminal-investigations.html\">Twitter death threats can lead to criminal investigations<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter will introduce a new algorithmic timeline to users, which will see tweets appear in a &#8220;Facebook-style&#8221; feed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,15681,405],"class_list":["post-154354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-timeline","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154356,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154354\/revisions\/154356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}