{"id":185683,"date":"2022-03-11T11:17:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T10:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=185683"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:53:40","slug":"twitters-default-chronological-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitters-default-chronological-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter\u2019s default chronological timeline is a relic of the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a> came under heavy criticism when it made the decision to drop the default<strong> chronological timeline feature <\/strong>for a more suggestion-driven system. But thanks to a <strong>new update<\/strong> currently rolling out to iOS, you&#8217;ll soon be able to see the most recent Tweets in your feed again; You just won&#8217;t be able to see them by default like in the good old days.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update is due to be available on Android shortly after the iOS rollout is complete, and following that, it will hit the web. As spotted on Twitter&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/twittersupport\/status\/1501989523588358145?s=21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"official support account\">official support account<\/a>, the <strong>new interface<\/strong> will feature two new tabs at the top of users&#8217; screens; Home and Latest Tweets. Home will host the company&#8217;s suggested tweets while flipping over to the <strong>Latest Tweets<\/strong> tab will let users see the most recent tweets in chronological order.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While users will still be able to see their Tweets in chronological order following the <strong>new update<\/strong>, the &#8216;Latest Tweets&#8217; option being the default is a relic of the social media giant&#8217;s more user-driven past. Luckily, a Twitter spokesperson has brought to light the likelihood that this system will change again, hopefully back to what it was. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The issue with social media companies making such drastic changes to how users&#8217; feed is presented to them is that it ends up being more of a <strong>confusion<\/strong> than anything else. iOS users who have already received the update say they are constantly checking whether they&#8217;re on the <strong>right tab<\/strong>, and in most cases, the &#8216;right tab&#8217; is not the one showing Twitter&#8217;s suggestions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong> is also a culprit of changing things up to the dismay of its users. The popular image-sharing social media app was also criticized from dizzying heights after switching to <strong>suggested posts<\/strong> opposed to chronological order. While Instagram is currently testing new interface options that bring back a chronological feed without suggestions, it&#8217;s unclear whether Twitter will bend to public pressure and follow suit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Let us know how you feel about Twitter&#8217;s latest update in the comments, and stick around to read up on how you can set up <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.en.softonic.com\/articles\/twitter-warnings-for-sensitive-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Twitter warnings for sensitive content\">Twitter warnings for sensitive content<\/a>. For other platforms removing features, you can see how <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.en.softonic.com\/articles\/instagram-says-goodbye-to-igtv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"Instagram has said goodbye to IGTV.\">Instagram has said goodbye to IGTV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter came under heavy criticism when it made the decision to drop the default chronological timeline feature for a more suggestion-driven system. But thanks to a new update currently rolling out to iOS, you&#8217;ll soon be able to see the most recent Tweets in your feed again; You just won&#8217;t be able to see them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/twitters-default-chronological-timeline\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Twitter\u2019s default chronological timeline is a relic of the past&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9222,"featured_media":185689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2358],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-185683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiontwitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324264,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185683\/revisions\/324264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185683"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=185683"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=185683"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=185683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}