Twitter Inserts Tweets Into User's Feeds of People They're Not Following

[engine]

Twitter is inserting tweets into user's feeds even if the user is not following them.
It's not advertising: Twitter's algorithms are selecting tweets of a users followers and inserting them into the feed.
That might explain some of the strange things i'd been seeing.

Over the last several months, Twitter has begun inserting what it believes to be relevant and popular tweets into the feeds of people who do not subscribe to the accounts that posted them. In other words, Twitter has started showing users tweets from accounts that are followed by those they follow.

[edition.cnn.com...]

[graeme_p]

So what they are doing is if I follow X and X follows Y, then I see some of Y's tweets. Might be good if done well, could be really irritating.

Another I noticed recently is that notifications now include a lot of tweets marked "in case you missed" instead of just mentions

[engine]

Yes, it's an attempt to try and get users to make more followers. I can see why, and it might be helpful, if it wasn't for the less attractive side of some people's interests.
I'd rather do the research myself, tbh.

FB do this to an extent and it's incredible how it selects such tenuous "friend" links.

[piatkow]

Another reason why I never view my timeline in Twitter but divide my various interests into lists instead and view those with varying frequencies.

[lucy24]

Now, if they had an easy-to-find preferences setting, allowing users to enable/disable this X>Y>Z feature, and if the default setting were Disable . . .

[JS_Harris]

There are people I want to follow, that I want to receive updates from, that I want to see their tweets in my timeline, but Twitter arbitrarily hides these(shadow ban). Inserting stuff I did NOT ask for while saying NO to things I am asking for... i'm highly unimpressed by where Jack is going with his company.

This morning I looked up what was going on in Hong Kong and was met with a series of communist anti-protester ads so Twitter is taking money from China against the people protesting too.

One of several sources on that: [insider.com...]

Twitter needs to step back from it's political ambitions, they are extremely biased. Saying "X is a buffoon" gets you banned but "Y is a buffoon" is encouraged. Twitter is going too far, you know this when they curate what you can(and cannot) see.