Earlier this year, Twitter released an update that forced users to see the “For You” tab with suggested tweets every time they opened the app. The platform then reversed this decision, but it seems that Twitter is once again finding a way to annoy its users. This time, many people are complaining that Twitter’s For You tab excessively displays content from accounts they don’t follow.
Twitter shows a bunch of tweets from unknown accounts
As reported by many Twitter users on Thursday, the For You tab now shows a bunch of tweets from accounts they don’t follow. In most cases, these tweets are not linked to other accounts or content that the user follows. I was even able to see this issue for myself when opening the Twitter app today.
While the Following tab displays tweets from the accounts you follow in chronological order, the For You tab uses algorithms to display the tweets that are considered most relevant to you first. In some cases, tweets from accounts you don’t follow also appear in the For You tab, but they’re usually related to the topics you interact with the most on the social network.
Looking at my For You tab now, there are very few tweets from my friends and other accounts that I follow, and there are a lot of tweets from unknown accounts. Some of these accounts promoted for no reason follow Twitter Blue.
It’s unclear at this point if Twitter is facing another internal issue or if the company has decided to change how its algorithm works more aggressively. Earlier this week, Twitter rolled out a change to its API that prevented users from opening links, images, and even accessing the social network through its website.
I don’t know how to use the Twitter app anymore why is there a For You tab full of random tweets
— Irvin (@irvin2492) 9 mars 2023
I was about to switch to the “For You” tab. There was a limited amount of extra stuff, mostly stuff that people like me, cool.
Anyway, today I open Twitter and it’s just a random shit stream that I don’t care about and isn’t related to anything. Dead.– Chris Somethingson (@Mozillo) 9 mars 2023
Something is happening on Twitter
Since Elon Musk took over ownership of Twitter, he has fired key engineers from the platform, which now repeatedly faces sudden outages. Musk also pushed the Twitter Blue subscription by limiting access to previously free features and even asking employees to force his own tweets to appear for all Twitter users, even people who don’t follow him.
As noted by Netcost-security.fr, new Twitter users are now inundated with random content on their timeline, even when they are not yet following anyone. Interestingly, Musk’s account is first on the list of suggested accounts to follow.
We would try to contact Twitter to find out what’s going on, but the company no longer has a PR team.
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