Then, ads and promoted tweets started getting more prominence, and the 'reply' mechanic started mucking around with the chronology of the timeline, bumping up old tweets when they were responded to.
This raises a significant question: If Twitter is willing to alter the chronology of the main timeline for the purpose of conversations, what else would it change it for?
In the absence of a ready-made narrative about Hoffman, Twitter supplied one through the piecemeal brute-force chronology of the cascading timeline; every second or two, a new piece of content arrived.
This, as well as Tuck's looseness with chronology, can leave the timeline muddled and confused.
Results A timeline and chronology of policy actions and influence were derived from interview and document data.
Chock full of maps, timelines, chronologies, and a cause-and-effect narrative dry rote "facts" laid out in succession it's often anything but a page-turner.
Chronology of offending A detailed timeline released today reveals that as Savile grew in fame so his offending became increasingly prolific.
TIMELINE: Gay marriage chronology.
Farmer scrutinizes F.A.A. and Norad records to provide irrefragable evidence that a day after a Sept. 17 White House briefing, both agencies suddenly altered their chronologies to produce a coherent timeline and story that "fit together nicely with the account provided publicly by Deputy Defense Secretary Wolfowitz and Vice President Cheney".
Deaver restarted the chronology of Bond, separate from the timelines of any of the previous authors, by stating he was born in 1980; the novel also saw Bond in a post-9/11 agency, independent of either MI5 or MI6.
When you think about any content management system or blogging platform, which by the way many mainstream media use as their online presence — be it Wordpress or Tumblr, and even Twitter and Facebook timelines — they're wired for chronology, so that the latest floats to the top, and we infer that this means that the latest is the most meaningful, most relevant, most significant.
