Twitter Rolling Out 'While You Were Away' Recap Feature to Some Users
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By Ketan Pratap | Updated: 2 January 2015 11:08 IST
Twitter back in November at its analyst day promised some features that it believed will increase user engagement, and one of them was
the 'While you were away' recap, which has reportedly been spotted by
multiple users.
The company in its blog
had detailed the
feature as, "We're exploring ways to surface relevant Tweets so the
content that is interesting to you is easy to discover."
Techcrunch
reports
that the 'While you were away' recap of tweets has been rolling out
to "significant numbers of users" tipping that the full rollout is
imminent.
The new 'While you were away' feature, much like
Facebook, shows major tweets from a user's network since the last login
and shows them on top of the timeline.
The report quoted the
company describing the feature in November, "Every time you open the
Twitter app, you'll see something great." The 'While you were away'
recap of tweets feature was announced alongside the upcoming "instant
timeline" feature that is also due to be released.
CNBC's Eli Langer also spotted the new 'While you were away' on his Twitter mobile app on New Year's Eve.
OMG, it appears Twitter is testing a Facebook-like algorithm for the Home stream called "While you were away..." pic.twitter.com/CpQQMLp0VO
A
search query for 'while you were away' on Twitter
reveals that the feature is now available to a considerable number of
users. The report mentions that some users saw "the feature as early as
the first week of December."
"The algorithm that Twitter uses to source your 'best' tweets from your friends is crucial to its success," adds the report.
In
other news, Twitter on Thursday shared the list of most popular New
Year 2015 resolutions shared by its users on the micro-blogging
platform. According to the findings, Work Out topped the list of New
Year 2015 resolutions followed by Be Happy and Lose Weight.
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