Twitter's Tabs interface has been revamped after the most recent upgrades.
"Home" | "Latest" ↓ "For You" | "Following" | (Pinned Lists)*
And you can switch between them by swiping on your phone screen.
Let's see their utility:
The default tab upon opening the app and the dark place where your precious content gets algorithmically lost, never seen by anyone.
Good news, with the new interface you can override this now.
The addition of this new tab is expected so that Twitter can change the way you move between algorithm-driven timelines and inverse chronology and turn algorithmic feeds into defaults.
This separation replaced the previous cringe toggling in the app which switched between those two modes, and was remembered (?) between uses.
No more ✨ icon and slightly better chances to see the content of an account you've interacted with 1K times.
But the "flaw" with this design is that users will see the algorithmic timeline by default, fatefully using the chronological timeline less.
Twitter won't let you avoid its algorithmic graveyard after all, but someone must use the algorithm, no? 😩
But we can do better.
Customization! And it's now easier to jump from one pinned list to another.
Earlier, the only way to access lists on the web was to through More > Lists; what a drag.
You can add more than 1.
Walkthrough from the boss:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1616524886201225217
Finally, here are my current Tabs for inspiration:
For You: Meh.
Following: Less meh.
Commentooor: A list with accounts I use to comment on their tweets.
Noise-free: A list of curated news sources to avoid echo-chambers.
ZenAcademy: A list by @Zeneca_33 including @ZenAcademy members; we support each other.


