Twitter Finally Rolls Out Long-Promised Real-Time Activity, Username Streams On Twitter.com

It was announced back in August, for Dorsey’s sake.

But Twitter has started to roll out the long-promised Activity and @Username streams on Twitter.com. I have it, and so do a lot of other users. And many of them are not happy.

Here’s a screen grab of how it looks. First, the @Username stream (which in my case is labelled @Sheamus), which now shows your mentions and retweets, new follows and also (nicely) when any of your tweets has been favorited.

And a bit further down, so you can see some examples of retweets, Favorites and follows.

And here’s the Activity tab, which has replaced Retweets, and shows “Favorites, follows, retweets, and more by people you follow”.

It’s Activity which has caused the most dissent with users, with many of them unhappy with the big change and the removal of the retweets folder (even though that’s now been integrated into @Username, which has mostly gone...