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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey noticed all of those #RIPTwitter tweets on Saturday, and wants the users to remain calm.
“Twitter is here to stay,” he tweeted in response to outrage that become the No. 1 trend on the social media platform after BuzzFeed reported it will no longer show tweets in chronological order, and will instead present a timeline that reorders tweets based on what an algorithm thinks people want to see the most.
“I *love* real-time. We love the live stream. It’s us. And we’re going to continue to refine it to make Twitter feel more, not less, live,” Dorsey tweeted.
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The backlash to the news was swift, and looked like this:
Twitter's Timeline Changing As Soon As Next Week And People Are Killing It With #RIPTwitter https://t.co/c4e8mUwFZG pic.twitter.com/mK2hvkJ2QC
— Mentality Mag (@MentalityMag) February 6, 2016
Read all of Dorsey’s tweets on the subject below:
Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we’re always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Twitter is live. Twitter is real-time. Twitter is about who & what you follow. And Twitter is here to stay! By becoming more Twitter-y.
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Look at “while you were away” at the top of your TL. Tweets you missed from people you follow. Pull to refresh to go back to real-time.
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
I *love* real-time. We love the live stream. It’s us. And we’re going to continue to refine it to make Twitter feel more, not less, live!
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Twitter can help make connections in real-time based on dynamic interests and topics, rather than a static social/friend graph. We get it.
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Thank you all for your passion and trust. We will continue to work to earn it, and we will continue to listen, and talk!
– Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
