Twitter's Latest Experiment Puts Favorites in the Timeline, Users Not Impressed

Twitter is known for experimenting with different features in its mobile apps and on its website. Its latest experiment — which treats favorites more like retweets on the main timeline — has some users seeing red

A number of users are seeing tweets that users they follow favorite — or even popular tweets from accounts others follow — posted directly to their main Twitter timeline.

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The Next Web reported on the new experiment, which has impacted users such as Re/Code's Peter Kafka, investor Hunter Walk and The Next Web's editor-in-chief Martin Bryant. Read more...

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