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Twitter tests ways for users to follow and snooze specific topics

Lucas Matney
Updated
Twitter tests ways for users to follow and snooze specific topics

You may soon be able to organize Twitter's web of hashtags and handles in a smarter way -- that is, if the company can pull off its ambitious new rethinking of the app's timelines. The company isn't getting rid of the process of following users, but at a press event in SF, company execs announced they are planning to push users to start following "topics" that bring in well-engaged tweets from a variety of accounts that the user might not necessarily follow. Twitter is currently testing the feature on Android with topics focused around sports, "from MMA to Formula 1" to specific professional franchises.

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