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Twitter will introduce in November an "instant timeline" feature which will create an account that pops up users preferred twits from the social network without going through the old signing up process, according to the New York Times.
With this new feature, Twitter uses access to the registrant's smartphone contacts list and then scans the list for Twitter users and analyzes their personal information and the people they follow to guess on what topics might interest the registrant .
Traditionally, users only see the messages of the people they follow or whoever the user follows determine what is visible on the service. On Twitter's new feature however, the service pops up other information like the user's friend's interest on food, recipes for their chosen food and other related stories regarding their interests. On the account appears timeline of variations of tweets from the users' friend's interests without needing to follow a single account.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said, "We believe that anyone should be able to come to Twitter and immediately feel deeply immersed in that world."
The idea of having an instant is for users to be guided of who they follow and be directed to the topics they are interested in, according to Mashable. As the new user becomes familiar with the service and has already followed more accounts, then the instant timeline will include lesser system picked material ending up with a regular news feed.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said, "We believe that anyone should be able to come to Twitter and immediately feel deeply immersed in that world."
The new service is still in testing phase and the Twitter has not provided an exact date on when the service will be officially released. The company also plans on expanding the feature if the initial testing goes well and aims on making the instant timeline a standard process of account activation within a few months.
