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twitter is flipping the order of tweets and people are flipping out I'm Bridget Carey this is your cnet update twitter has tinkered with the timeline pulling the past into the present allow me to explain you see one of the main reasons people love checking Twitter is because you see a real-time chronologically ordered feet of what people are saying so you can keep up with what's trending this second but if you follow hundreds of accounts you're going to miss tweets posted when you were not logged on and twitter is now addressing this by showing you older tweets it thinks you care about right on top of your current feed this is a new feature and reports say about a dozen of these older tweets will be on top of the real time stream with the oldest showing first it's as if Twitter spread a layer of Facebook flavored frosting on top of your tweet cake hoping to make it more appetizing to new users it's really not now now I don't have it yet but you'll find it as an option in settings and eventually it may be the default for everyone it's similar in concept to the while you were away feature where Twitter shows a handful of posts maybe I people you interact with and that's since you were last logged in but it's just more of that although it may not be labeled clearly you'll have to pay close attention to the timestamp in the corner or you could get confused hitting refresh sweeps away all the old and it only shows the new personally I have my own methods to sort through the noise I use tweetdeck and I separate people into lists for different topics so the ones that matter most to me don't get missed you can also never miss a tweet when you have a phone screen that never goes to sleep LG electronics put out a tease that its next big phone the g5 will have an always-on screen that would mean you don't need to press any button to check notifications or the time it could just appear there always as if we didn't already have an addiction to checking somehow this is supposed to keep you even more connected sounds a little gimmicky but we'll learn more later this month when the phone is unveiled on februari 21st which just so happens to be the same day Samsung is showcasing its next big phone the Galaxy s7 that's it for this tech news update and there's over more cnet com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey