Social networking site Twitter has revealed plans to use a new system that will organize the feeds of the users, according to IGN.
According to Anthony Noto, the CFO of Twitter, the algorithm-based system will allow users to see and search for Tweets more accurately.
Currently, Twitter's feeds are arranged in a reverse-chronological order. This means that despite the popularity of the Tweets, the latest ones are displayed at the top of the feed.
If the new algorithm system is implemented, Twitter will have a similar timeline-like feature as Facebook. In the case of the latter site, the posts are ranked or ordered according to their popularity and relevance to the topics people are talking about.
"If you think about our search capabilities we have a great data set of topical information about topical tweets," Noto said. "The hierarchy within search really has to lend itself to that taxonomy."
In order to optimize Twitter's search capabilities, Noto explained the site has to adopt "an algorithm that delivers the depth and breadth of the content we have on a specific topic and then eventually as it relates to people."
"Putting that content in front of the person at that moment in time is a way to organize that content better," he added.
Although the proposed plan to organize Tweets according to relevance is a way for the site to improve its usability for users, many criticized Twitter in its attempt to filter feeds, Washington Post reported.
"I'm guessing anything resembling filtering will inevitability privilege popular, established users over regular people," Twitter user Matt Pearce posted.
"The lack of curation in the Twitter feed is one of the main reasons I have shifted most activity away from Facebook," another user tweeted.
Some users even said they would leave Twitter once the new user feed system has been implemented, according to Gigaom.
"I'd leave. One of the added values of Twitter is to provide raw content," one user said.
"I would ultimately leave - I've very carefully customized my feed to see what I want to see," another posted.