Twitter's Latest Experiment: Showing You Tweets From Accounts Your Friends Follow

Twitter experiments with at least one new feature each and every day, and while most of these are simply that – experiments – some do move out of the beta process and become system-wide.

The platform’s latest venture, which it’s testing on its usual small subset of unsuspecting users, is slightly controversial – tweets from accounts that your friends follow are appearing in your stream.

These aren’t retweets from friends, and they aren’t promoted. What Twitter’s doing is populating tweets from accounts you don’t follow, but your friends do, in your timeline.

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