Didn't catch that tweet all your friends were talking about? Twitter wants you to see it next time, using a new feature that will notify you of tweets and contacts that Twitter thinks you'll want to know about.
Starting Tuesday, users of Twitter for the iPhone and Android devices will start getting push notifications when multiple people in their network follow the same user, or when they favorite or retweet the same tweet, Twitter senior software engineer Venu Satuluri announced in a blog post.
The feature could serve an important function as Twitter grows and its users' feeds get more saturated with content. The idea is that if enough of a person's contacts are interacting with a particular tweet, or following another contact, Twitter thinks that person will want to know about it.
It's an offshoot of an experimental Twitter account called Magic Recs, which had been used to send personalized recommendations to followers via direct messages. That account has more than 18,000 followers.
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