Twitter on the web version ‘disappearing tweet’ solved the problem. For about two months now, users have been complaining about the homepage refreshing itself when reading a tweet on the site. This is the timeline for new tweets. to automatically download it causes. As a matter of fact, a tweet you are reading at that moment disappears because it falls behind.
The social media company said in a statement in September that it was aware of the problem. “We know this is a frustrating experience so we are working to change that” Twitter, saying that it will fix the situation in two months, kept its promise. A small but important innovation has been implemented in the web version of the platform.
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Twitter will no longer auto-refresh the homepage
Twitter announced the new feature with the following words:
An update to the disappearing Tweet experience is now available for the web! You can now choose when you want new Tweets to be uploaded to your timeline. To do this, click the Tweet counter bar at the top.
As of Monday, a new era has started on Twitter. The home page was automatically refreshed as the people you followed shared tweets. The social media platform, which has removed this system from use, left it completely to the user’s choice whether to upload new posts or not. It also gave the freedom to never refresh tweets.
When new tweets to be uploaded are detected, Twitter will notify you at the top of the homepage. “Show 20 Tweets” A prompt like this will appear and the main page will not be refreshed unless it is clicked. Show When the button is pressed, it will suddenly jump to the top of the page. Thus, you will be able to quickly access the latest tweet uploaded.
Twitter likens homepage to Instagram
Not only solving the problem of disappearing tweets, Twitter continues to work hard to offer different experiences to its mobile users. In this context, the company recently changed the design of the home page. like Instagram, larger area on the screen covering implemented the content design. The new skin is gradually available starting on iOS.
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In addition, the platform is available in the app and web version. full size images started to show. In this way, users who previously saw a cropped version of a photo can now see the full version. The new feature, which was started to be used on Android and iOS in the first place, came to the website last week.