Twitter is shoving more video in your timeline

Twitter wants you to watch — not just read — your timeline. 

Twitter has created a "top videos for you" section that shows videos that it believes the user may enjoy. The videos play automatically, without sound, as you hover over them. A Twitter spokesperson confirmed it is a test. 

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It's not unlike Twitter's "While you were away" feature that displays tweets you may have missed while not using its app. That feature, introduced in earlier 2015, differed from Twitter's overhaul of the timeline in February 2016 in that this bulk of tweets is placed within the timeline instead of being surfaced at the top. The new test limits that section to videos.  Read more...

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