Twitter Starts Rolling out "While you Were Away" Tecaps for its iOS Users

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Twitter has almost 300 million monthly active users with around 500 million Tweets being sent per day. A good part of these tweets come from iPhone and iPad users. The company is well aware of that and that's why it is now releasing a really useful feature for them.

Twitter is rolling out its "While you were away" recaps for its iOS app which will allow iPhone and iPad users to see a snapshot of popular or relevant tweets they missed since the last time they checked in. Twitter also said the feature will be launching soon on its Android app and web interface soon.

Paul Rosania, Twitter's Product Manager, made the announcement yesterday on the company's official blog, saying the following:

A lot can happen while you’re on the go. To fill in some of those gaps, we will surface a few of the best Tweets you probably wouldn’t have seen otherwise, determined by engagement and other factors. If you check in on Twitter now and then for a quick snapshot of what’s happening, you’ll see this recap more often; if you spend a lot of time on Twitter already, you’ll see it less.

Our goal is to help you keep up – or catch up – with your world, no matter how much time you spend on Twitter. With a few improvements to the home timeline we think we can do a better job of delivering on that promise without compromising the real time nature of Twitter.

The new feature is somewhat similar in concept to Facebook's "top stories," and will prove to be really helpful to active Twitter users.

Source: Twitter