Twitter to make its timeline algorithmic from next week, say sources

Twitter is going to make a radical change to its timeline. According to Buzzfeed News, the Twitter timeline will become algorithmic as soon as next week and it will order tweets according to their relevancy and what Twitter thinks its users want to see.

Looking at the changes that the social media site has been undergoing off late, this will probably be the biggest considering the fact that so far it has been using a reverse chronological timeline. This allows you to see the latest tweets as opposed to the most popular ones in your timeline.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has big responsibilities on his shoulders considering the stagnant growth of Twitter. Dorsey wants to make the service more user-friendly and intuitive to new users. In fact the algorithmic timeline has been under testing since late last year according to The Verge.

There is no confirmation as to whether the algorithmic timeline will be an opt-in thing or a compulsory feature. Off late Twitter has increased the character limit on Direct Messages, introduced Twitter Moments, introduced live inline Periscope videos, let people view popular tweets without signing in, made following conversations easier and there are even talks of stretching the 140-character limit to 10,000 characters. The algorithmic tweets, if true, will be the latest feature in the constantly changing world of Twitter.