Twitter’s new For You tab, which rolled out to iPhones and iPads on Tuesday, is now showing on desktop net browsers.
The For You tab is the TikTok-inspired identify for Twitter’s algorithmically curated “Dwelling” tab, and on iOS, it’s now the default tab you see whenever you shut and reopen the app. You’ll be able to nonetheless entry the reverse-chronological record of the newest posts from the folks you observe on the “Following” tab (beforehand “Newest”), although Twitter has eliminated the star icon to change between the timelines.
For some, this variation is now much more annoying since main third-party Twitter apps simply stopped working, blocking folks’s escape from options or modifications they don’t like. As of Friday afternoon, builders of these apps are nonetheless saying that they haven’t heard something from Twitter about what’s happening and whether or not their apps have been damaged deliberately or accidentally.
The net model doesn’t appear to push the algorithmic For You timeline as laborious because the cellular change. In my exams, it will keep on following even after I closed the tab or browser. Certainly one of my colleagues says that when he obtained the change, it was routinely set to Following — although for me, logging into Twitter with a personal browser window does seem to reset it to For You.
The app, in the meantime, routinely opens to the algorithmic timeline and can reset to it should you shut and reopen it.
