Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey noticed all of those #RIPTwitter tweets on Saturday, and wants the users to remain calm.
“Twitter is here to stay,” he tweeted in response to outrage that become the No. 1 trend on the social media platform after BuzzFeed reported it will no longer show tweets in chronological order, and will instead present a timeline that reorders tweets based on what an algorithm thinks people want to see the most.
“I *love* real-time. We love the live stream. It’s us. And we’re going to continue to refine it to make Twitter feel more, not less, live,” Dorsey tweeted.
The backlash to the news was swift, and looked like this:
https://twitter.com/MentalityMag/status/696024137651896320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Read all of Dorsey’s tweets on the subject below:
Hello Twitter! Regarding #RIPTwitter: I want you all to know we’re always listening. We never planned to reorder timelines next week.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Twitter is live. Twitter is real-time. Twitter is about who & what you follow. And Twitter is here to stay! By becoming more Twitter-y.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Look at “while you were away” at the top of your TL. Tweets you missed from people you follow. Pull to refresh to go back to real-time.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
I *love* real-time. We love the live stream. It’s us. And we’re going to continue to refine it to make Twitter feel more, not less, live!
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Twitter can help make connections in real-time based on dynamic interests and topics, rather than a static social/friend graph. We get it.
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016
Thank you all for your passion and trust. We will continue to work to earn it, and we will continue to listen, and talk!
— Jack (@jack) February 6, 2016