Am I being naïve in assuming the manipulating of your timeline is one of the major differences between Facebook and Twitter?

@stilkov Twitter does not show you all tweets of the people you follow or that you listed.

@Fulleren Is that a confirmed fact or an assumption?

@stilkov If A tweets to B you will see that tweet if you follow A and B but not if you only follow A xor B it will not appear for listed

@Fulleren @stilkov The fan-out rules are completely deterministic. There's no magic sorting or filtering of the timeline going on.

@passy @stilkov Not everybody knows about the fan-out rules and tweets cant be distributed simultaneously so 2 people could get then w delay

@Fulleren @stilkov I agree that those are confusing to newcomers, but it's still a huge difference between this an AI determining your exp.