Catching Up with Your Twitter Feed? Now, They've Got a Feature For That
By social media editor Melony Roy
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (CBS) -- Twitter has officially added a feature designed to recap tweets you may have missed while not using its app.
The new tool is called "While You Were Away." Instead of showing just a chronological list of the most recent tweets, the news feed will also display the top tweets since the last time you opened the app.
The new algorithm looks at engagement and other user habits.
Twitter says the goal is to dig up for you the top tweets that would have otherwise been lost among the flood of new posts.
The change will have less of an effect for those who use the app frequently, but the more time you spend away from the app, the more tweets the feature will draw from.
For now, the feature is only for Apple users, but the company says it will be expanding the rollout to Android and its web site soon.