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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/3\/10\/22971307\/twitter-home-timeline-algorithmic-reverse-chronological-feed<\/a>
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Twitter is rolling out a change that, frustratingly, makes it a bit more difficult to see your chronological feed. <\/p>\n

The design change, which lets you swipe between your Home (algorithmically served) and Latest (reverse chronological) timelines, was announced Thursday<\/a>. To set it up, you tap the sparkle icon in the top right corner, and you\u2019ll see the option to pin your \u201cLatest timeline,\u201d and if you select that, you\u2019ll see both \u201cHome\u201d and \u201cLatest Tweets\u201d tabs at the top of the iOS app. If you use pinned lists on the iOS app, the layout might look familiar. The feature is available first on iOS, and it\u2019s coming \u201csoon\u201d to Android and the web, Twitter says. (The company began testing the feature in October<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

To my great disappointment, however, I\u2019ve found that after testing the feature, now I can\u2019t make the chronological feed the default. Instead, I can only have Home as my default or<\/em> set up the two Home and Latest Tweets tabs and swap between them as needed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all bad. When jumping between Twitter and other apps on my phone, if Latest Tweets was the column I was looking at, it will be the focus when I return to Twitter. But when I force close and re-open the app when looking at the Latest Tweets column, the Home feed is what Twitter shows first. Twitter spokesperson Shaokyi Amdo said that the Home feed will be pinned first by default \u201cfor now\u201d and confirmed there is no way to pin Latest first by default. <\/p>\n

This feels like a big step back to me. Now, on iOS, any time I want to scroll through a reverse-ordered feed like I always did before, I\u2019ll have to check first to see if I\u2019m looking at the right feed. Fortunately, at least for now, Latest can still be the default on the web for me \u2014 including on my iPhone\u2019s Safari.<\/p>\n

Twitter first began rolling out its algorithmic timeline in 2016<\/a> (to some high-profile<\/a> uproar<\/a>) and introduced the sparkle icon to let you toggle between the algorithmic and reverse chronological feeds in 2018<\/a>. To me, the sparkle always felt like a decent-enough way to let the Home and Latest timelines co-exist, but with the change announced Thursday, Twitter seems to be pushing users toward the algorithmic feed. Instagram, on the other hand, is testing bringing back <\/em>its chronological feed<\/a>. <\/p>\n