TweetDeck

TweetDeckTwitter has added a custom timelines feature designed to give users more control over how they see tweets in their feed. Users can create and name custom timelines around a specific topic or event, and then they can choose only the most noteworthy or relevant tweets to add to the timeline. “Whether you want to collect the best Tweets about a TV show or help people find the latest information about fast-moving real-time situations, custom timelines let you give everyone a place to follow along,” Twitter’s Brian Ellin wrote in a blog post. Custom timelines borrow from Twitter’s Lists feature, which allows you to keep track of tweets from groups of Twitter users under lists like “Friends” or “News.” But unlike Lists, which display all tweets from everyone in that group in reverse-chronological order, custom timelines let you pick and choose only the tweets you’d like to see, a little bit like Storify and other curation tools.

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