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Twitter Testing New Tweet Notifications on Homepage

Source: mashable

Nov 05, 2009

Summary

A select group of Twitter users have been granted a new feature that’s been a long time coming.

Twitter is testing “tweet notifications” that will automatically call out new tweets since your last refresh, from the people you follow, on your Twitter.com homepage. Think of it as the next best thing to the auto-refresh.

Although we haven’t been gifted with the new feature, we can see it in the wild courtesy of Twitter user @stephromanski, who noticed the change and posted a very clear TwitPic of the tweet notification update.

Here’s what Twitter’s Status blog has to say about the new addition to the Twitter experience:

“We’re starting a limited test of notifications on twitter.com for when you have new tweets. So if one of the folks you follow has tweeted since you loaded your homepage, you’ll get a little notice saying “1 new tweet” that, when clicked, will display the new content.

We think it improves the tweet consumption experience and hope to roll it out to everyone as soon as we can.”

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