Twitter allows users to ‘custom timelines’ build

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Twitter has the ability to ge lwa site to a Twitter timeline to put together on the basis of self-selected Twitter messages. At this time only from TweetDeck, but in the long term can do that too using the Twitter api.

The new functionality makes it possible to Twitter messages about a particular topic in a self-defined timeline, which then other users can be shared. At this time, this can only manually, but as soon as the functionality in the Twitter api is available, be able to tweets to be automatically added. So can a script be written that popular tweets about a certain topic, add to custom timeline.

Users can timelines embedded on their website, but it is currently not possible to make yourself to ‘subscribe’ to other people’s custom timeline. The functionality seems to be the possibility of some twitteraccounts to add to a list. The list function lets users however, a timeline to compose on the basis of certain twitteraccounts, while the custom timeline that allows on the basis of individual tweets.

The attempt by Twitter to bring order to the tweet-chaos follows shortly on the initial public offering of the microbloggingdienst. The clarity of Twitter by analysts as one of the threats for the platform seen.