The new user-defined feeds are for anyone who wants to design tweet timelines around news, events, or topics. November 12, 2013 10:39 AM PST Carson Daly's custom timeline with a curated collection of tweets about "The Voice." (Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET) Twitter is giving people the ability to choreograph the look and feel of real-time information with a new feature called custom timelines. Custom timelines, released Tuesday, are user-defined feeds, meaning people can pluck just the tweets they'd like to feature in a curated collection that can be shared with others. This new type of timeline is meant to add structure to Twitter's often scrambled and chaotic airwaves. It is best suited for journalists, media organizations, entertainment companies, or anyone else who wants to act as a curator of tweets around news, events, or specific subject matters. At launch, custom timelines can only be created in Twitter's Tweetdeck application, though once created they can be shared with others via URL or embedded on Web sites.
The new user-defined feeds are for anyone who wants to design tweet timelines around news, events, or topics.
Carson Daly's custom timeline with a curated collection of tweets about "The Voice."
(Credit: Screenshot/Jennifer Van Grove/CNET)
Twitter is giving people the ability to choreograph the look and feel of real-time information with a new feature called custom timelines.
Custom timelines, released Tuesday, are user-defined feeds, meaning people can pluck just the tweets they'd like to feature in a curated collection that can be shared with others.
This new type of timeline is meant to add structure to Twitter's often scrambled and chaotic airwaves. It is best suited for journalists, media organizations, entertainment companies, or anyone else who wants to act as a curator of tweets around news, events, or specific subject matters.
At launch, custom timelines can only be created in Twitter's Tweetdeck application, though once created they can be shared with others via URL or embedded on Web sites.
