X Finally Adds Custom Timelines

Nikita Bier, X’s caput of product, has announced nan motorboat of civilization timelines, which lets you curate what you spot connected your provender based connected your topics of interest. He called nan update “one of nan biggest changes to X” and a ”huge undertaking” that took nan squad “many months” to develop. The characteristic lets you pin circumstantial topics to your location tab, truthful you tin move from 1 to nan different to spot nan latest discussions astir your interests and hobbies.

Bier said that X’s civilization timelines is “powered by Grok's knowing of each station pinch nan algorithm's personalization.” You person 75 topics to take from, including food, art, photography, business, finance, movies and TV. As you’d expect, nan personalization facet of nan characteristic useful amended if it’s a taxable you already prosecute pinch regularly. X’s caller characteristic is akin to Bluesky’s and Threads’ civilization feeds, which besides let you to pin topic-based timelines to nan location screens of nan apps, and which their users person been enjoying since 2023 and 2024, respectively.

At nan moment, X’s civilization timelines is still successful its early entree shape and is only disposable to Premium subscribers connected iOS. It will beryllium rolling retired to Premium users connected Android “very soon,” arsenic well. Bier has besides announced that X has released a tool to snooze topics connected nan For You tab. With nan tool, you’ll beryllium capable to hide definite topics, specified arsenic authorities aliases sports, for 24 hours from your feed. It’s now disposable for Premium users connected iOS and nan web.