Chai's Blog

Recent­ly I wrote about how I reduced the noise on my Twit­ter time­line by chang­ing the default time­line pref­er­ence from top tweets to the lat­est tweets.

Since then I noticed that from time to time my time­line pref­er­ence is falling back to top tweets with­out my inter­ven­tion. But I was­n’t total­ly sure because I did not think Twit­ter may be over­rid­ing my pref­er­ences. Today I real­ized it is indeed the case!

As shown in the fol­low­ing screen­shot of the iOS app on my phone, Twit­ter is overzeal­ous­ly over­rid­ing my time­line pref­er­ence to what it wants me to see.

Every time Twit­ter does this to me, I have to tap the star icon at the top right and change the pref­er­ence to lat­est tweets.

This is my first-hand expe­ri­ence of a social net­work’s aggres­sive­ness towards its users. I still stand Twit­ter because I often find use­ful infor­ma­tion on it via the cool peo­ple I fol­low. But when the time comes, I don’t think twice to leave the plat­form. Until then, I will put up with this nui­sance.