Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, has introduced the launch of customized timelines, which helps you to curate what you see in your feed primarily based in your matters of curiosity. He called the update “one of many greatest modifications to X” and a ”big endeavor” that took the crew “many months” to develop. The characteristic allows you to pin particular matters to your property tab, so you’ll be able to swap from one to the opposite to see the most recent discussions about your pursuits and hobbies.
Bier stated that X’s customized timelines is “powered by Grok’s understanding of each publish with the algorithm’s personalization.” You’ve got 75 matters to select from, together with meals, artwork, images, enterprise, finance, films and TV. As you’d anticipate, the personalization side of the characteristic works higher if it’s a subject you already have interaction with often. X’s new characteristic is just like Bluesky’s and Threads’ customized feeds, which additionally will let you pin topic-based timelines to the house screens of the apps, and which their customers have been having fun with since 2023 and 2024, respectively.
In the mean time, X’s customized timelines remains to be in its early entry part and is barely obtainable to Premium subscribers on iOS. It will likely be rolling out to Premium customers on Android “very quickly,” as properly. Bier has additionally introduced that X has launched a tool to snooze topics on the For You tab. With the software, you’ll have the ability to disguise sure matters, akin to politics or sports activities, for twenty-four hours out of your feed. It’s now obtainable for Premium customers on iOS and the online.
