Twitter has rolled out a new feature dubbed ‘Highlights’ to help users sieve through the large number of tweets on their feed each day.
The new service offers a twice-daily summary “of the best tweets for you, delivered via rich push notification”, Twitter’s Gordon Luk said in a blog post.
“We want to help you get the most out of Twitter, no matter how much time you spend with it. While your home timeline is a great place to browse through and engage with tweets, we know it can be challenging to find the time to get through everything,” Luk noted in the blog post.
The top tweets are decided on the basis of the people a user is following, current trending topics in the geography and popular people in the user’s network. The tweets are delivered to a user’s smartphone through a push notification. Users can scroll the highlighted tweets and then wrap up at their Twitter timeline.
The feature “lets you catch up quickly on the best stuff that is most relevant to you,” Twitter said in its post.
“To create your Highlights, we look at things like the accounts and conversations that are popular among people you follow, Tweets from people you’re closely tied to, topics and events that are trending in your area or within your network, and people that are popular or trending among people you follow,” the post said of the opt-in feature.
Twitter has released Highlights only in English for all Android users.Android users can enable the Highlight features by selecting the Highlights checkbox from the Settings option. The social blogging giant has confirmed that the feature will be rolled out to other platforms in the future.
