Twitter will show the most interesting messages you might have missed.

Twitter has officially added a mechanism for viewing the most interesting messages that a person could have missed while offline. The selection of messages will be based on complex mechanisms that take into account user preferences. And this feature can not be disabled.

For now, this mechanism is only available to Twitter users on the iOS platform. The “While You Were Away” feature was first presented in November last year, but in fact it appeared only a few days ago.

The new mechanism will analyze the messages that appeared since the user’s last login, and choose the most interesting ones for him so that they don’t get lost in the general tape. The principle of operation has something in common with Facebook's Ribbon, but Twitter Vice President categorically denies such a comparison. He told the New York Times that the Twitter feed will analyze the flow of information in real time, while Facebook ignores the chronology of notifications altogether.

Obviously, the operation of the mechanism depends on the number of missed messages, so users who are online all the time will hardly notice the changes. It's also notable that the feature can't be turned off, but if a user continually hides such notifications, they will become fewer over time, reports the New York Times.

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