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Chris Radcliff On Twitter's Timeline Changes

September 7, 2014
For some users, filtering like this means nothing less than the end of Twitter. That may seem overblown, but I think it's a fair assessment. To be specific: filtering the timeline changes Twitter from a communications service into a news or entertainment service, which is inherently less valuable to me as a Twitter user.

I feel the same way.

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