"We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline."
Significant benefits like increasing the adoption rate for third-party twitter clients, perhaps.
"Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this."
I tapped it once by accident while trying to swipe to see if I could delete it.
If twitter want to turn a spammy feature into a useful one, they need to start asking users about their interests, or else attempt to determine them algorithmically.
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"We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline."
Significant benefits like increasing the adoption rate for third-party twitter clients, perhaps.
"Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this."
I tapped it once by accident while trying to swipe to see if I could delete it.
If twitter want to turn a spammy feature into a useful one, they need to start asking users about their interests, or else attempt to determine them algorithmically.