Celebrities Tweeting #RIPTwitter towards Twitter Timeline alternate

William Shatner, Lin-Manuel Miranda & Rob Lowe are amongst those who need Twitter to depart the live timeline by myself.

Danny Sullivan on February 6, 2016

It’s now not simply rank-and-file Twitter customers which can be involved that Twitter would possibly alternate its timeline from a reside chronological view to a algorithmic one. Celebrities on Twitter are raising their voices, too.

famous person Trek star William Shatner doesn’t want Twitter to boldly go this way:

So not delighted about this algorithm exchange. I need to see it all; no longer what an algorithm thinks I must. #RIPTwitter #Twitteraunatural

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) February 6, 2016

Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda goes to rise up, if it happens:

Twitter if you
Algorithm
i’ll go along with ’em,
i’m going to go Rhythm in different places#RIPTwitter #Dontdothisthing #Thisisadumbthing

— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) February 6, 2016

Actor Rowe Lowe is actually upset over the speculation:

one of the vital nice rewards of being an grownup is finding out by yourself who (and what) you should be eager about. #RIPTwitter

— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) February 6, 2016

comic and My drunk Kitchen creator Hannah Hart wants house and time left by myself on Twitter:

dear Twitter, stop messing with the time space continuum. Love, God #RIPTwitter

— Hannah Hart (@harto) February 6, 2016

satirically, a Twitter timeline that is algorithmically based totally would allow you to in finding tweets from main celebrities and influencers like this. at the moment, to find these on Twitter, you’d need to do a seek for the hashtag and hope that Twitter lists some of them as high tweets — which it doesn’t. yes, there’s a dedicated prime tweets reveal. but the relevancy is terrible.

as an alternative, to search out them, I used TweetDeck and filtered to proven customers who had tweets above a hundred, 250 and 500 retweets, like this:

TweetDeck

An algorithmic timeline would imply someone the usage of Twitter might easily spot one of the vital hottest tweets on a particular subject or from those they practice with out doing any of this work. that would be a excellent factor.

after all, it could be a good thing provided that it’s an non-compulsory thing, in my view. Making it a default setting risks destroying the live nature of Twitter that attracts so many great tweets within the first position.

It appears doubtless that it will be that the alternate is an possibility, now not a default change. For extra on that, in addition to thoughts on how algorithmic Twitter may reside alongside are living Twitter, see my previous publish: #RIPTwitter trends Over concerns Twitter Will Drop live Timeline.

Postscript: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has now commented to reassure that reside timelines aren’t going away. See our story: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Reassures Over #RIPTwitter worries: live Timeline Will remain.

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