Twitter users can follow topics whose tweets come in timeline

Twitter kicks off the Topics feature next week, which will allow users to follow topics. Then popular tweets on that topic from accounts that users don’t follow appear in the timeline.

Twitter has been testing the feature for several months and Topics will launch with 300 topics next week, the company told The Verge. The service will start with 300 topics, including about various sports and pop artists. More topics will follow in the future, but Twitter will not be publishing Topics about politics for the time being. In doing so, the algorithm could make controversial decisions.

In the timeline you can see which tweets come from Topics by a small notification above the tweet. The fewer accounts a user follows, the more tweets from Topics appear in the timeline, Twitter says.

There will also be a function to not follow tweets about a Topic, but rather to hide it. For example, it should be possible not to encounter spoilers on Twitter of, for example, films or series. In Twitter clients, it became possible years ago to mute tweets with a certain hashtag, for the same purpose.