Twitter's about to introduce Topics. Here's how the new feature works

Now that we're all used to seeing tweets from randos we don't follow in our feeds, Twitter is introducing a new way for you to discover just how many bad opinions are really out there regarding the things you care most about.

Meet Topics.

Essentially, Topics will expand the reach of Twitter functions like following, muting, and adding to Lists beyond individual accounts to include tweets focused on a specific thing. Whether you're into Mars news, Carly Rae Jepsen, or Liverpool FC, you'll be able to follow those interests as you would an account, being served the "top tweets" from "experts, fans or [accounts that] just tend to talk about that thing a lot", according to the Twitter blog. Read more...