Twitter To Show Tweets From Strangers In Users’ Timeline To Make Site More Interesting

Twitter is looking to improve  user-experience by showing tweets from people you don't follow on your timeline.

Twitter, the renowned micro-blogging service, has decided to make one of its controversial test feature officially a part of the site. The social networking site was testing a few changes to users' timelines by inserting tweets from people they do not follow,  and now it seems the change is official, the Next Web reports.

Twitter previously had a simple definition for Twitter Home Timeline, which was to display a "stream of Tweets from accounts you have chosen to follow on Twitter." But the Help Center page was updated with a new section, adding a new meaning to the definition of Home Timelines.  

"When we identify a Tweet, an account to follow, or other content that's popular or relevant, we may add it to your timeline," Twitter updated definition for Home Timeline reads. "This means you will sometimes see Tweets from accounts you don't follow. We select each Tweet using a variety of signals, including how popular it is and how people in your network are interacting with it. Our goal is to make your home timeline even more relevant and interesting."

But users who worry the private or semi-private tweets they favorite will appear on their followers timelines can relax. Based on the new definition, Twitter will only display or highlight relevant content, even if it is not directly linked to the user, Quartz reported.

The report notes that the move makes Twitter timelines almost similar to Facebook. The world's largest social networking site, Facebook, which hosts more than 1.2 billion active users, shows posts based on their relevance to the users. With each change, Twitter is looking to enhance its service so it can bag more users to compete against Facebook.