Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said Saturday the social media website's stream
of tweets will stay live and in real time, disputing a media report that
a change was in the works.
News and entertainment site BuzzFeed
reported on Friday that Twitter was going to introduce a timeline based
on an algorithm rather than a real-time stream. The report upset some
users, who created the hashtag RIPTwitter to debate the change.
But Dorsey took to Twitter on Saturday to dispute the report.
"Twitter is live," he tweeted. "Twitter is real-time."
BuzzFeed updated its report with Dorsey's response.
The
response to the report about a new-type of Twitter timeline was
overwhelmingly negative, with the hashtag #RIPTwitter suggesting many
users of the micro-blogging site believe the changes would mean the
death of the company.
Many users were upset that tweets from
accounts with fewer followers could possibly be suppressed under the new
system. Others complained that the changes would make Twitter too much
like Facebook , which arranges content through the use of an algorithm.
"Dear Twitter, don't try to be like Facebook, we don't like Facebook #RIPTwitter," tweeted ana (@dearcalumthood) on Saturday.
"Clearly
the motto 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' is something @twitter isn't
familiar with #RIPTwitter," tweeted EldestSalvatore (@EldestDamon) on
Saturday.
A spokesperson for Twitter declined to comment.
Twitter
has come under increasing pressure to boost user growth, as it
struggles to attain advertising revenues equaling those of its larger
Facebook rival.
Last month, Twitter came under fire when it
announced a new feature that would allow users to post tweets up to
10,000 characters long, up from its previous limit of 140 characters.
The San Francisco-based social media site reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday.
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