Twitter timeline change will kill what makes it fun

The prospect of a Twitter timeline determined not by date but by some arbitrary algorithm has me questioning my devotion to the now decade-old platform.

And I'm not the only one

In an exquisite piece of irony, the current top Twitter trend is #RIPTwitter, a hashtag devoted to decrying a new Twitter timeline algorithm that may arrive as early as next week. If it does, most people predict the end of Twitter.

I don't entirely agree, though I know a timeline based on "the most interesting and most relevant, most important thing that's happening in your world," as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey put it, will irrevocably alter the service. Read more...