Instagram Begins Experimenting With A Non-Chronological Timeline

Instagram Begins Experimenting With A Non-Chronological Timeline

Instagram, like Twitter before it, is starting to learn that there’s no money in letting your best posts disappear to the ravages of time. The service is now experimenting with an algorithmic instead of chronological timeline.

The Facebook-owned company announced yesterday that it would be experimenting with a new model that surfaces the posts that Instagram thinks you’re most interested in first. For the time being, it’s unclear if this would be on top of the normal reverse-chronological feed, or if it will replace it entirely.

Instagram says that this experience will be rolling out “in the coming months”. This may mean that not everyone will see it, or that it will be tweaked before the full release. In the meantime, I finally get the most apt reason yet to use that Chrono Trigger time warp background in the picture above.

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