How to stop seeing twitter’s “best tweets” at the top of your timeline

Home serves Tweets from accounts and Topics you follow as well as recommended Tweets. You’ll also see features that help you manage your Home timeline.

• Your Home timeline displays a stream of Tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter. You may see suggested content powered by a variety of signals. You can reply, Retweet, or like a Tweet from within Home.
• You can choose between viewing top Tweets in Home first, or the latest Tweets first in your timeline (available on Twitter for iOS and Android, and twitter.com). Home, or top Tweets, are ones you are likely to care about most, and we choose them based on accounts you interact with frequently, Tweets you engage with, and much more. You can find instructions on how to toggle between the two timeline views below.
• You may see Tweets for Topics you follow, Tweets for Topic suggestions, and a summary of the most interesting Tweets you might not have seen, labeled as In case you missed it.
• You may also see content such as promoted Tweets or Retweets in your timeline.

• Clicking or tapping anywhere on a Tweet in your timeline will take you to the Tweet detail page, so you can see photos, videos, and other information related to that Tweet.
• Use the Bookmarks feature to bookmark Tweets you’d like to refer to later. From a Tweet, tap or click on the share icon (

on Android) and select Add Tweet to Bookmarks. To view your saved Tweets, tap or click on Bookmarks from your profile icon menu or the left nav. To remove a saved bookmark, tap the share icon from the Tweet within your bookmark timeline and select Remove Tweet from bookmarks. Additionally, you can tap the more icon

icon to view why we think you'll be interested in the event, or to hide the event from your timeline. Tap the photo to view conversation surrounding the event.

As you might have noticed, Twitter sometimes forces the display of Retweets and likes, also known as favorites, and even combines the two. Understandably, this can easily get on some users’ nerves as this is stopping them from watching the content they are using Twitter for.

If you’re among them, you’re probably thinking about how to reduce or completely hide these, and we can’t blame you. Read on to see what you can do.

Use AdBlock Plus for Firefox

Ad blockers for browsers are more powerful now than ever. They can block ads in many shapes and forms. They can even block sponsored Tweets as these can really ruin the vibe by appearing everywhere. Even worse, certain Tweet likes also fall under this category.

One way to fight this is by using the AdBlock Plus Firefox plugin that has the Element Hiding Helper function. By letting you filter out an area of a Tweet, it helps you get rid of not just sponsored Tweets, but also the “Who to follow,” “Analytics,” “Moments”, and many other panels.

The only issue with this method is that it tends to hide others’ Tweets on your profile, as well as Tweets that you’ve posted that contain images. This means that it gets increasingly easy to miss others’ replies to your posts, so if you want to give this method a try, don’t forget to check for tweets and comments with photos occasionally.

Mute Phrases

Twitter has a useful option called Muted keywords. What it does is self-explanatory, but did you know that you can use it to hide suggested Tweets and menus such as “Who to Follow?”

To do this, just go to this link to access this Twitter’s setting directly, or tap the gear icon on the Twitter mobile app to enter the Settings. The most important phrases you should add to the list include:

Say No to Liked Tweets

All Tweets have additional options in their top-right corners that can be accessed by clicking or tapping on the Arrow icon. On certain app versions and web browsers, there should be an option called “I don’t like this tweet.”

If it’s not there, look for “Show me less of this.” If you do this enough times, these Tweets will stop appearing because you’ve directly let Twitter know that you don’t want them on your timeline. That’s what makes this a good solution despite the time it takes for Twitter to learn its lesson.

Disable the Algorithm

Twitter has an algorithm that shows you the Tweets it believes you’ll like on top for a long time. Disabling this option also helps with removing the liked tweets.

1. Log in to Twitter and go to the Settings.
2. Go to the “Privacy and safety” tab.
3. Scroll down until you see the “Content” section.
4. Under “Timeline,” there’s a single option called “Show the best Tweets first.” Disable it by removing the tick from the checkbox.

Turn off All Retweets

While not about likes, this option might give you some peace when it comes to avoiding Tweets from strangers. If you’re using Google Chrome, you can turn off all Retweets manually with relative ease. However, this will take some time, especially if you follow lots of people. This is a workaround method, after all, as Twitter doesn’t let you do this.

1. Open the list of people you follow. Scrolling all the way down further expands the list. Keep on scrolling until the full list is shown. Alternatively, you can just keep pressing the “End” button on your keyboard.
2. Click on the three dots in Chrome’s top-right corner to open the main menu. Go to “More tools.” From there, choose “Developer tools.” You can also press Ctrl + Shift + I.
   At the bottom of the code, add the following line and press Enter: a=Array.prototype.slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(“div.ProfileCard-content div.dropdown”));a.forEach(function(e) )

Note: You’ll have to repeat this for each of your new follows.

Hiding Your Likes from Others

Unfortunately, you can only partially hide your Tweets. The only known way to do so is to make your profile private and the only persons affected this way are those that aren’t following you already. To make your profile private, you need to enable the “Protect my Tweets” option:

1. Log in to Twitter and click on your profile icon in the top-right corner of the home screen. Choose “Settings.”
2. Go to the “Security and privacy” tab.
3. Scroll down to find the “Privacy” section and tick the box next to the “Protect my Tweets” option.
4. Click on the “Save changes” button.

Note: If you don’t do this, your profile will stay public. That said, if you want to make it public again, you should uncheck the “Protect my Tweets” checkbox.

When your profile is private, as already mentioned, other users need to start following you before being able to access your liked Tweets.

Remove a Tweet from Your Favorites

Although not the most useful method, you can simply “unlike” or “unfavorite” a Tweet if you really don’t want others to see that you’ve liked it.

1. Log in to Twitter and go to your profile page.
2. Click on “Favorites.”
3. Look for the Tweet that you want to remove from your favorites list. Hover over it with your cursor and click on the “Favorited” link. It’s located next to the tweet.
4. To make sure you’ve “unfavorited” the Tweet, refresh the page. The action was successful if it’s not on the list anymore.

Finding Peace

The best way to escape the social network craze is to just stop using them, but since that’s not very easy to do, but hopefully this is a good alternative. If you find security on Twitter very important, be sure to make your profile private.

What’s your stand on social media addiction? Do you think its effect can be overwhelming on people? Let us know in the comments below.

Maggie Tillman, US contributing editor

· 15 January 2019

– It's a simple setting change

(Pocket-lint) – Twitter a couple years ago randomly decided to mess up how it shows tweets from people you follow in the timeline.

It took the old, reverse-chronological feed and applied an algorithm meant to surface tweets it thinks you’d care about most. The goal was to drive user engagement. But it meant you would see things like “tweets you may have missed” at the top of your timeline. At any point, you could pull-to-refresh to get an up-to-the-second experience, but many people hated seeing old tweets every time they opened Twitter on their phone or desktop.

For instance, you’ve probably seen a day-old tweet about some viral moment in a sporting event, rather than a true stream of real-time tweets. And, even if you did pull-to-refresh, after scrolling down a bit, you probably saw more old tweets inserted into your feed. Thankfully, even though it took awhile, Twitter has backpedalled on this annoying experience. Here’s what you need to know.

Why did Twitter drop reverse chronological timelines?

Well, Facebook and Instagram had begun shifting from the previously orderly way of doing things to serve up posts you most likely want to see most. Think about it: If you have a 1,000 friends on Facebook, you don’t want to see every single thing each and every one of them post. Facebook thinks you don’t, anyway, so it uses algorithms to show posts that likely matter most.

But what’s good for Facebook isn’t necessarily what’s best for Twitter. And it seems like Twitter is starting to come to that realisation, as it is finally letting users get back their unfettered chronological timelines.

Android, we got you. Starting today, tap ✨ to switch between latest and top Tweets.

— Twitter (@Twitter) January 15, 2019

How to see tweets in reverse chronological order

Any Twitter user – either from an iPhone, Android, or PC – can get back to the pre-2016 era of the Twitter timeline.

Twitter app

1. Open up your Twitter app.
2. Tap the stars icon in the top corner.
3. Select See latest tweets instead.

Note: To reverse this, hit the stars icon again, and select Go back home.

Twitter.com

1. Open up Twitter.com in your browser.
2. Go to Settings and Privacy.
3. Go to Account.
4. Scroll down to “Show the best tweets first”.
5. Un-check that setting.

What does the ‘show the best tweets first’ box do?

Twitter recently updated its “Show the best Tweets first” setting. Now, when this is switched off, you’ll only see tweets from people you follow in reverse chronological order. Previously, you’d also see “In case you missed it”-type tweets as well as recommended tweets from people you don’t follow. Twitter will eventually replace this setting with an “easier-to-access switch”.

Why is Twitter returning to reverse chronological timelines?

Twitter via Twitter Support announced it’s been working on new ways to give you more control over your timeline. It learned that showing the best tweets first is “more relevant and useful” – but it doesn’t “always get this balance right”. So, it’s providing us with an easy way to switch between a timeline of tweets that are most relevant to a timeline of the latest tweets.

Everyone can stop freaking out about an entirely algorithm-based Twitter timeline, at least for now.

Today, Twitter introduced a new opt-in timeline feature that will show you some tweets you missed since the last time you logged in to the service. It’s ostensibly supposed to show you the “best tweets,” and it’s a bit like the “While You Were Away” feature that the company launched over a year ago.

The update follows last week’s #RIPTwitter trending topic explosion, during which the Internet collectively mourned reverse-chronological timelines following a report that Twitter would be launching them. Fearing Twitter would become more like Facebook and make decisions on what content to display based on an algorithm and not how they appear in our feed at the time someone tweets it, people aired grievances and GIFs lamenting the loss of the social network.

To turn on the feature, go to your timeline settings and turn on “Show me the best Tweets first.” You’ll start seeing old tweets at the top of your feed soon. The new timeline will display the “best tweets,” and then your reverse-chronological timeline beneath it. Pulling to refresh will make tweets appear in real-time again.

It’s rolling out to people on Wednesday, so you might not have it yet. The number tweets the company decides to show you at the top of your timeline will vary based on how active your timeline is, but it averages out to about a dozen per session.

In a blog post announcing the changes, Twitter said: “We’ll be listening to your feedback and making it even better over time. Then we’ll be turning on the feature for you in coming weeks—look out for a notification in your timeline.”

“Best tweets” aren’t replacing While You Were Away. They will blend into your reverse-chronological timeline instead of popping up in a call-out when you open the app. The only way to know they’re not new is to check the timestamp. Twitter didn’t share any screenshots of the new feature in action, but it will look pretty much like Twitter does now.

According to the company, tests show that users who have “best tweets” turned on tend to retweet and tweet more.

One of the main concerns about an algorithm-based feed, apart from making Twitter even more like Facebook, is that Twitter would be mucking with the timeline for all users, controlling who gets to see what and when. Making the feature opt-in should allay some frustrations. It’s a relatively minor change—12 tweets isn’t much in the way of timeline manipulation—and it’s also one that you can choose to make or not.

Twitter announced the timeline change the same day it’s set to hold its fourth quarter earnings call, during which investors will see whether or not the company is beginning to turn itself around. In recent months, frustrations have mounted from both investors and users about the success of Twitter as a platform. On Wednesday, CEO Jack Dorsey will have to answer some questions about the company’s future.

“Best tweets” comes on the heels of Twitter increasing advertising by dropping auto-play ads right at the top of your feed and announcing a new group meant to help combat harassment, a huge problem on the social network, and a reason many people leave it.

Illustration via Max Fleishman

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Selena Larson is a technology reporter based in San Francisco who writes about the intersection of technology and culture. Her work explores new technologies and the way they impact industries, human behavior, and security and privacy. Since leaving the Daily Dot, she’s reported for CNN Money and done technical writing for cybersecurity firm Dragos.

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More than a month after it first rolled out as an opt-in program, Twitter’s algorithmic timeline is now supposed to be live for all, as recently reported by Marketing Land. What this means is that some tweets will appear in your timeline out of chronological order.

This is not like Facebook’s algorithmic approach, however, where the social network only shows you content it believes you’re more likely to find engaging. The live tweet stream based on people you follow is still there. It’s just that the first thing you see will be this new summary of “the best tweets first.” The new timeline tweak is mostly a beefier ”while you were away” feature that Twitter introduced in 2015.

It’s an interesting addition that some users will no doubt appreciate. In fact, Twitter told MarketingLand that users opting out of the feature were in the “single digits.”

If you’re among the 9 percent or less, however, turning off the timeline change isn’t that hard.

Settings deep dive

Twitter’s “best tweets first” setting on Twitter.com.

Let’s start with the web version. Head to Twitter.com and click on your profile picture in the upper right corner, then select Settings from the drop down menu. On the next page, under Content, look for the “Timeline” setting and un-check “Show me the best Tweets first”. Finally, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click Save changes.

On iOS, tap the gear icon and go to Settings > [Account name] > Timeline > Timeline personalization. Toggle off “Show me the best Tweets first.”

Android users should tap the three vertical dots in the upper right hand corner, go to Settings > Timeline and uncheck “Show me the best tweets first.”

Even though the new timeline is supposedly live for all there must be some people who aren’t seeing it—I don’t have it yet, for example. If you don’t see the option to turn off the algorithmic change, check back in a few days.

You follow hundreds of people on Twitter — maybe thousands — and when you open Twitter, it can feel like you’ve missed some of their most important Tweets. Today, we’re excited to share a new timeline feature that helps you catch up on the best Tweets from people you follow.

Here’s how it works. You flip on the feature in your settings; then when you open Twitter after being away for a while, the Tweets you’re most likely to care about will appear at the top of your timeline – still recent and in reverse chronological order. The rest of the Tweets will be displayed right underneath, also in reverse chronological order, as always. At any point, just pull-to-refresh to see all new Tweets at the top in the live, up-to-the-second experience you already know and love.

We’ve already seen that people who use this new feature tend to Retweet and Tweet more, creating more live commentary and conversations, which is great for everyone. To check it out now, just go into the timeline section of your settings and choose ‘Show me the best Tweets first’. We’ll be listening to your feedback and making it even better over time. Then we’ll be turning on the feature for you in coming weeks — look out for a notification in your timeline. We love it and think you will too. If you don’t, send your thoughts our way, and you can easily turn it off in settings.

We think this is a great way to get even more out of Twitter and we’re excited for you to experience it. Let us know what you think!

lmost three years ago, Twitter introduced one of the most controversial changes in its history. It began using a ranking algorithm to decide what tweets people would see at the top of their timeline. Until then, it had (with some exceptions) simply shown users all the tweets from everyone they follow in reverse-chronological order.

There was an option to turn off the algorithmic ranking, but it was hidden within the Twitter settings, and its function wasn’t obvious. The default setting was called “Show the best tweets first,” and unchecking it would revert your timeline to the old reverse-chron system. Evidence that people struggled with the setting could be found every time people complained during a live event that they were seeing tweets from hours or even days earlier.
Twitter also told me that its own research showed many users had turned off the algorithm at some point, then forgotten that they’d done so and never turned it back on.

But that’s about to change—at least for users of the iOS app. Starting Tuesday, they’ll be able to toggle with a single tap between the ranked timeline—which Twitter is now calling the “home” timeline—and an unfiltered, reverse-chronological one. You’ll do that by using a “sparkle” icon that appears to the top right of your timeline. Tap it once, and your timeline will switch to reverse-chron. Tap it again, and the algorithm is back. The home timeline will appear by default when you refresh or log back in after being away for a while.

Twitter’s product lead, Keith Coleman, announced and explained the change in a Twitter thread Tuesday. The company says it should be available on platforms other than iOS in January.

With the change, Twitter will retire the old option to turn off “show the best tweets first” in your Twitter settings. That may irk some users who thought they’d ridded themselves of the algorithm for good. In a briefing prior to the announcement, Coleman told me the company has thought about this, and built its system to “learn” people’s preferences over time. So if a given user keeps turning off the ranking algorithm, eventually Twitter will stop showing it to them, unless they’ve been logged out for a long time.

“There are some times when rankings are good, because they help you catch up and get a summary of what’s going on,” Coleman says. “There are other times where the [ranked] home timeline isn’t the best. Let’s say it’s Election Night. You’re caught up on what’s been going on, and you just want to see what the latest is.” Now it will be easier to do that.

In its testing of the new feature, Twitter says it found that users are having 2 percent more conversations than before. In particular, they’re interacting more with other users during live events that they’re following, presumably because they’re seeing everyone’s tweets in real time rather than having outdated ones mixed in. They’ve also reported higher satisfaction with Twitter overall.

I still anticipate a backlash from folks who have already told Twitter they don’t want their timeline ranked and now must tell Twitter the same thing again, multiple times. But I also expect this to help Twitter’s business long-term, because all indications are that the ranked timeline does boost user engagement and satisfaction, even if people don’t realize it. And, of course, this is a feature Twitter users have been clamoring for since before it even introduced the ranked timeline. So maybe, for once, it’s a Twitter tweak that will go over well.

Then again, there will probably still be a lot of people wondering why Twitter isn’t adding an edit button or getting rid of the Nazis instead.

Twitter’s new ‘best Tweets first’ Timeline By REFUGE Team

By Vlad Vidaeff

It’s no secret that Twitter has been in a state of flux lately: the company has been playing musical chairs with its executives, its stock price has plummeted, and it’s planning to eliminate its iconic 140-character limit. In another major change, Twitter has recently introduced a ‘best Tweets first’ timeline. This blog will discuss the features of this new update and whether it’s a solid decision for Twitter’s short-term and long-term growth goals.

Here’s how the new timeline works: when you open Twitter after being away for a bit, you will see the Tweets that you are most likely to care about at the top of your timeline. These are Tweets coming from the users that you interact and engage with frequently. However, Twitter has denied that it is now populating users’ timelines using an algorithm similar to Facebook’s. Instead, the distinction is that only a certain number of Tweets appear at the top of the timeline. The number of Tweets is not definitive and is impacted by the number of users that the individual in question is following. After this group of best Tweets, the next group of Tweets appear in Twitter’s classic reverse chronological order. Furthermore, users have the option of opting out of the new scheme if they would like.

Twitter’s reasoning behind the decision is that it will enhance the user experience. By featuring the Tweets you care about the most, you are less likely to miss out on updates from your favorites. However, the minuses outweigh the positives in my opinion. First, if you are following someone who is live Tweeting an event, it is possible that if several of those Tweets appear in the ‘best’ section of the timeline, they may appear out of order. This could cause confusion, as the Tweets are not necessarily populating in chronological order. Second, part of what makes Twitter special is the platform’s penchant for breaking news. Once a newsworthy event occurs, you can often find out about it first by logging onto Twitter and looking at the top of your timeline. With the new timeline, you may have to scroll down to discover breaking news.

The third reason is more theoretical in nature. Through the series of changes that Twitter has been making, it seems like the platform is trying to become more like Facebook. Sure, Twitter’s new timeline is not completely based on an algorithm, but it has aspects that are reminiscent of Facebook’s algorithm. Facebook is the leader and they say imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. However, at the same time, you are throwing away part of what has made your platform unique and iconic. You also run the risk of alienating your existing user base by making significant changes to the Twitter experience. Twitter’s recent changes have certainly been “splash-worthy,” but they are more akin to belly flops than gracious dives.

Ikke mange mennesker er store fan af Facebooks algoritme, men de hævder, at det kører brugerengagement. Det er ikke overraskende, at Twitter har implementeret en lignende funktion, der hedder Best Tweets.

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Nu, i stedet for at se et kronologisk feed, når du logger ind på Twitter, Jeg vil se Tweets det synes du er mest interesseret i for de seneste Tweets. Efter seks timer væk fra min computer loggede jeg ind på Twitter og måtte rulle gennem 44 tweets, før jeg kom til mit almindelige feed. Denne slags flyver i lyset af, hvad så mange mennesker elsker om Twitter, så her er, hvordan man slukker.

De to første tweets og 42 mere som dem fremkom før de to andre tweets, som er starten på min kronologiske feed.

Klik på den lille cirkel med dit profilbillede øverst til højre og vælg Indstillinger og Fortrolighed.

Rul ned til afsnittet Indhold og ved siden af ​​Tidslinje, fjern markeringen i feltet, der siger “Vis mig de bedste tweets Først “.

Klik på Gem ændringer, indtast dit kodeord og klik på Gem ændringer igen.

Nu når dit feed kun viser de nyeste tweets. Bemærk, at dette er adskilt fra feltet “I tilfælde du savnede det” – du vil stadig se det, men du kommer stadig til din kronologiske tidslinje meget hurtigere.

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