The idea behind the new feature is to help users find accounts that match their interests across a range of categories, including News, Politics, Fashion, Technology, Business & Finance, Health & Fitness, Gaming, Stocks, Memes, and more.
However, unlike Bluesky’s Starter Packs, which anyone on the platform can make and share with others, X created its own lists internally.
Bier notes the Starterpacks will roll out to everyone on X in the “coming weeks.”
Suggested user lists are nothing new to X — they’ve been utilized on the social network since its earliest days, back when it was known as Twitter. As one of the first interest-based social apps, Twitter users didn’t necessarily want or need to only find and connect with their friends, as they had on other apps like Facebook. Instead, they wanted to find people whose ideas and interests aligned with their own. To help them get started, Twitter offered up a list of suggested users who would make for a good follow.
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