earlier. Basically, the feature lets the users see the timeline of other users, like the home twitter feed. It was previously suspended by Twitter two years back. The suspension of this small feature was followed by an official blog post which justified the removal, dated on 4th June of 2009. The Twitter Status blog stated: “Recently we made a change to remove the With Friends tab from user profiles. We did this after finding out that this tab was both a relatively rarely accessed as well as computationally expensive page for us to serve.”
Image via CrunchBaseNot only was the feature “relatively rarely accessed” but it was also accumulating many costly cycles on their taxed servers at that time. Now the question in mind of many users is that why is Twitter returning this feature now. It’s clearly visible that Twitter is past its limitation of main scaling issues, since its downtime is way too less than before. Even though there is considerable time when the service is unavailable even today, but it has still increased tremendously compared to the situation two years ago. The features like “With Friends,” tweet-to-IM, auto timeline updates were among the main reason behind the downtime of mainstream functions of Twitter.So to eradicate the problems, these features were discontinued back then since keeping a healthy social graph was not as important concern of that time. But now that it has improved it’s functionally and has no problem in having more users, its primary concerns is to make Twitter more useful and keep the users addicted to the service. Hence these features like “Who To Follow” and “See What I See” are very helpful in that regard. Especially the “See What I See” features can be used as a self-tutorial to show new users about how to use Twitter in full capacity.
Consequently Twitter has reinstalled this feature it had previously Twitter suspended, like it promised to its users in reply to one of the queries made back then. Twitter had stated in a response to a complaint that “It’s our hope to bring back the access to these feeds at some point. But for stability reasons, we’re unable to restore them at this time. We should have done a better job explaining this up front and anticipating this problem. Apologies for this; it’s our highest priority to provide a reliable, stable service for everyone.”
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