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How to Change Your Twitter Timeline Back to Chronological Order

Taking a page from the Facebook playbook, Twitter has just changed your Twitter news feed timeline to show you the “best tweets” first, instead of showing tweets in the chronological order (technically reverse chronological order) that they are posted.

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Facebook’s New “See First” Gives You Control Over Who You See on Your News Feed

Facebook has just announced, and started to roll out, their new See First setting, which gives you control over who gets priority in your Facebook news feed timeline. While the announcements today say that it is being rolled out to iOS today, and Android and the web later, some folks, including us, have it on the web right now (and yes, we rubbed our hands with glee when we discovered that).

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Facebook to Start Identifying Hoaxes for You in Your News Feed

It’s the Internet-age old conundrum: How can you tell if something in your Facebook news feed is a hoax or scam? This week Facebook announced that they will start tagging hoaxes for you in your newsfeed. Actually, they will start letting you know when other users have identified and tagged something as a hoax.

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Sign Up for Facebook’s Newly Redesigned Newsfeed

Facebook announced this week another change. Yes, we know, another Facebook change…that was unexpected, said nobody, ever. The newly redesigned Facebook newsfeed promises to be less cluttered, bursting with colors, all about your friends, and more personalized with your choice of feed types. At least, that’s what Facebook says. Others are saying “Oh look, Facebook cribbed their design from Google+ and the New York Times.” Still, if you are wondering “Where can I sign up for the new Facebook newsfeed?”, read on.