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Twitter on iOS lets you choose the home you prefer, but it’s not all gold

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Between evaluations on the introduction of podcasts, Twitter introduced a new feature that it had been working on since October. For the moment it is only available on iOS, but will soon also arrive on Android and the web platform. The change concerns the post feed, which now allows you to choose between the selection made by the algorithm or the “old” chronological order.

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To experience the novelty, just open the app, tap the icon with the stars at the top right and then on Pin the Recent history. By doing so, from the top of the app you can choose between the Home tab – the one with the tweets sorted by the algorithm – and the most recent Tweets. However, not everyone looks at the news with enthusiasm, because the default tab is still Home and there is no way to “oppose”.

If you select the chronological order and exit the app with it remaining active in memory, in the background, no problem when reopening, you find yourself where you had stopped. If the app is closed or removed from the background apps, it will restart from the Home tab when you reopen Twitter.

Nothing particularly disabling, given that with a tap you can always go back to the chronological order, but in the long run this “struggle” continues with an unchangeable default setting can make it frustrating. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed that the user has no room for intervention: “for now,” he said, the Home tab has priority over chronological order.

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