Am I being naïve in assuming the manipulating of your timeline is one of the major differences between Facebook and Twitter?
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@stilkov Twitter does not show you all tweets of the people you follow or that you listed.
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@Fulleren Is that a confirmed fact or an assumption?
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@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
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@Fulleren @stilkov The fan-out rules are completely deterministic. There's no magic sorting or filtering of the timeline going on.
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@passy @stilkov Not everybody knows about the fan-out rules and tweets cant be distributed simultaneously so 2 people could get then w delay
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@Fulleren @stilkov I agree that those are confusing to newcomers, but it's still a huge difference between this an AI determining your exp.
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Replying to @passy
@passy @Fulleren I agree. Feels like a significant difference to me.

Jul 5, 2014 · 8:54 PM UTC

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Replying to @stilkov
@stilkov @Fulleren Agreed. Speaking purely as a user here, the unfiltered timeline is to me what makes Twitter Twitter.
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