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Yeah, Twitter switched to an algorithmic feed in 2016 [1]. There is an option to turn off "Show the best Tweets first," but I don't know if that will actually cause the entire feed to be chronological.

An annoying thing about Twitter that I experienced recently is I started getting notifications for "top Tweets." I had to tell Twitter multiple times that I didn't want them before they stopped (there was no option to put an immediate stop to them).

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/technology/personaltech/p...

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The other annoying new feature in Twitter is the notifications for missed tweets or summaries. I mean, there is a reason I've missed those tweets. I don't want to be taken into the past. If I need to, I'll scroll a hundred times and visit the past. Please show me the latest tweets on my page without any notifications or other distractions, preferably sorted by the importance of people I follow.

Importance = function (frequency of me retweeting or liking this person's tweets, duration of follow)

To add a voice for the other side of it - I've found those quite useful. I follow people all over the world and live in London. When I have a look at twitter in the morning I actually like that it'll show me (some) tweets from people I follow in the US or Asia that I would've easily missed. I can't say for sure but it seems to prioritise them in some way based on my previous interactions or how many times the tweet in question was interacted with overnight.

Perspectives :). I don't like this feature for exactly the same reason. I wake up in the morning and there is a deluge of notifications since most of the people I follow are in the opposite timezone.

There is no way that I've found to turn off Twitter things like trying to recommend people to follow, or things I might've missed. I cancel them every time and get the "We'll show this less often" response, but cannot get them to just never show again. It's baffling that they go out of their way to frustrate long term users.

Yeah twitter still messes up the order even with all the settings right. Have to resort to using tweetbot just to catch stuff. It’s insane.

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