Twitter is not the only guilty party in pushing algorithmic feeds. At the time, the company said that this change would contribute to showing the “best” content on the platform to everyone. Last month, Twitter noted that it was taking steps to show more tweets from people you don’t follow in your timeline. Twitter search nav already sorta does this after you search. Main timeline should allow for an easy sideways swipe between top, latest, trending and topics that you follow. Twitter previously announced that it's killing legacy checkmarks on April 1st, stripping public personalities, companies, government and non-government organizations and the like of their verified status unless they pay for it.Couldn’t agree more! We’re making this change soon. But displaying only verified users could potentially mean that those who choose to view it would see a lot more promotional tweets.Īfter all, pretty soon the only verified accounts on the social media site will be Twitter Blue subscribers. Not everybody liked it, and Twitter released an update so that its web and mobile apps will default to the timeline tab users last had open after it came out. The feature debuted on iOS back in January as an alternative to the Following tab before making its way to other platforms. Twitter's For You interface shows not just tweets from the accounts a user follows, but also content based on previous tweets they've liked or other people in their network have liked. In a follow-up tweet, Musk clarified that AI bots can pay for verification (and presumably be shown in the For You timeline), as long as they don't impersonate a human.

He also said that Twitter is fighting a 'hopeless losing battle' otherwise if it doesn't implement the change.

Musk explained that the company is making the move to combat AI bots and that it's the 'only realistic way' to prevent 'advanced AI bot swarms' from taking over. Twitter boss Elon Musk has announced that the website will only display tweets from verified accounts in For You's recommendations starting on April 15th going forward. In a couple of weeks, all the tweets you see on the For You feed will come from Twitter Blue users.

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