Twitter introduced a new feature to its website Thursday that will help users catch up on tweets from their favorite celebrities they might have missed.
The feature, called "While you were away," will appear at the top of users' news feeds and will highlight some of the day's best tweets that may have gone unnoticed, according to PC Magazine. The social networking giant is making the feature available for iOS devices for now and plans on releasing it for the Android app and Web-based service "soon."
"Our goal is to help you keep up- or catch up- with your world, no matter how much time you spend on Twitter," Paul Rosania, product manager at Twitter, wrote in a blog post. "With a few improvements to the home timeline we think we can do a better job of delivering on that promise without compromising the real-time nature of Twitter."
Users won't be able to turn off the feature, which Twitter teased last fall, Macworld reported. The company hasn't said if users can opt out of missed tweets.
The move is similar to Facebook's upgrade to its users' feed, which shows the most "important" stories going on at the moment.
Kevin Weil, vice president of product at Twitter, said during the feature's teasing users will see recaps based on who they follow and what they engage with, PC Magazine reported. He added that users will most likely not find every highlight to be relevant to their interests, as the website sees 500 million published Tweets every day.
Users will also see less recaps in their feeds the more frequently they check their account.
The "While you were away" feature isn't the only tool for finding old tweets, as Twitter users can go through the site's "Tweet Index" that holds every public message published on the site since the company's birth in 2006.
