Thursday, November 10, 2011

Twitter's News Activity tab

It's not news that Twitter is always integrating functionality on the site, since this is the main means of access used by its members. Earlier this week one of these innovations began to be activated for the users: a tab called Activity (as in Portuguese, was active), which was already being tested in a while. Now it came without warning by Twitter, with some improvements since the test.


The functionality of this new tab is quite simple and can be reduced in a sentence: it makes all the Twitter users in professional stalkers. The Activity tab displays real-time, various activities of the people you follow, among which were favorite tweets, which others followed and what were they retweet. Different than Twitter exhibited in August, there's a very large accumulation of users followed this tab, which is good to avoid visual pollution.


In addition, the flap mentions was also modified. Now she began to have the username of the logged in user and shows the activities related to its user, such as retweets, favorites, and references. For those who do not want to see all this there is an option to view only the information, which is disabled by default and is also a novelty that had not been implemented in the initial tests. And it also displayed in real time, without having to click a blue progress bar from time to time.

With the update, only the main timeline (which was translated into history in Portuguese) is the one that has no tweets displayed in real time. Applications for Twitter like Tweetdeck and Echofon already have this functionality for some months.

The flap is slowly being activated for all users of social networking. If you have not yet, just wait for it to appear.