Twitter already shows messages posted when the user was not looking
The main social networks of the moment seem unable to innovate without copy and be inspired in functions already seen. Thus, if we recently saw how Facebook captured the trending topics of Twitter for US users of its applications, now it is Twitter who decides to test a new feature of the social network more massive.Thus comes “While you were away”, which in Spanish would be something like “while you were not”, intended to collect the contents of interest to the user when they were not looking at their chronology.
Apparently, for the moment it would be a test feature, since the function has only appeared selectively in a good number of terminals, but not in all. Although, for the moment, Twitter has not confirmed or declared anything. Something that supports the thesis about its status in testing phase With it, users can return to the application of Twitter knowing that a space in your chronology will be dedicated to collecting the interesting content that you missed because you were offline, consulting other applications or simply after not looking at Twitter for a few hours.
This is the first non-chronological function that this social network of 140 characters would adoptAnd it is that it would dispense with the immediacy and rabid topicality of its TimeLine or chronology in order to offer its users the content that most interests them. All this without having to search in the most immediate past. Something like a summary of what happened when I wasn't checking Twitter
This function fits directly into the chronology of the social network, in the header of this section. Thus, as if it were any other tweet, the messages and publications of the accounts followed by the user and that may have more relevance are shown. Although, without an official announcement by Twitter, it is difficult to say if the importance of this content will be given by the number of RT (retweets) or FAV (favorites) achieved by the publication, or if, instead, they will be more personalized criteria.
This is a function that is inevitably reminiscent of the wall of Facebook, where it is possible to find non-current posts from friends and Pages being followed. A way of being aware of what happened several hours ago or when the user was not consulting the social network.
At the moment we can only wait for an official announcement from those responsible for Twitter about this feature, although it may be delayed Yes, as it seems, it is still in the testing phase. And it is that, a large number of users have woken up the first day of the year discovering this space on their wall, but not in a general way.
At the moment, positive and negative reviews have already begun to circulate through the social network of the 140 characters On the one hand it is interesting come across content that otherwise would have gone unnoticed.However, it is also an unclear feature for the most novice users. We will have to wait and see how it works in Spain
