Twitter works on custom timelines for specific topics

July 14. (Portaltic/EP) –

Twitter is working on his developer channel at new custom timelines and focused on certain topics, starting their tests with one dedicated to the American series The Bachelorette.

Currently, the home timeline shows a sequence of ‘tweets’ from followed accounts on Twitter, where you can see suggested content based on different factors, such as previous ‘retweets’, topics of interest or ‘likes’.

The company has been changing the way posts are displayed on the timeline for months. Among some of its latest news announced is the integration of two new tabs, ‘Home’ and ‘Latest Tweets’ for iOS.

More recently, Twitter Product Manager Amir Shevat has revealed that is working, from the social network’s developer channel, in a new custom timeline format.

Today we launched a new custom Timeline experiment – just one of the many things we’re working on over at @TwitterDev ? There is a lot of potential for the developer community to build features like this in the future, and we are just getting started. Congratulations to the team!? pic.twitter.com/sFToIN7a2s

— Amir Shevat (@ashevat) July 11, 2022

In this announcement, made through his personal Twitter account, the manager has shared a screenshot of the web version of Twitter that belongs to the tests of this feature. In it, you can see the timeline with a new tab on the platform wallwhich separates ‘Home’ from ‘The Bachelorette ABC’.

In this second, it is indicated who has been the creator of this channel, followed by a header image and the different publications in which the name of the series has been included or the creator of this section has been tagged.

This option would a look similar to that offered by TweetDeckbecause in this other version of Twitter certain users can be set in the different columns of the interface to speed up access to these profiles and their publications.

The platform will be able to offer “much more flexibility in terms of what to show and what not to show and the customization of the timeline itself. In this way, and being this “the first step” of the process, Twitter hopes to “decentralize this area”, according to Shevat.

It should be remembered that, as reported a few days ago by reverse engineering expert Jane Manchun Wong, Twitter is testing these personalized timelines with a limited number of people in the United States and Canada.

Hence, the manager has insisted that the company will contact more developers so that they can test this tool as it progresses with these implementation experiments.

At the moment, the company has not advanced when it will arrive in other countries or what its next steps will be in the development roadmap of this personalized section of the timeline. It has also not determined if this feature will eventually come to mobile devices.