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Change this Twitter setting to see tweets in reverse chronological order
Twitter a couple years ago randomly decided to mess up how it shows tweets from people you follow in the timeline. It took the reverse-chronological feed and applied an algorithm meant to surface tweets it thinks you'd care about most. The goal was to drive user engagement. But it meant you would see things like "tweets you may have missed" at the top of your timeline. At any point, you could pull-to-refresh to get an up-to-the-second experience, but many people hated seeing old tweets every time they opened Twitter. For instance, you would see a tweet about some viral moment in a sporting event that occurred 23 hours earlier, rather than a true stream of real-time tweets. And even if you did pull-to-refresh, after scrolling down a bit, you'd again see old tweets inserted into your feed. Thankfully, even though it took awhile, Twitter is beginning to backpedal on this controversial decision. Here's what you need to know. Here’s why you must change your Twitt...
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