X, formerly Twitter, now sorts your posts by like counts when logged out – 9to5Google

Since its acquisition by Elon Musk, a whole lot has changed at Twitter, including its official name which is now “X.” Another change that you might not have noticed is that profiles on Twitter now show posts, formerly known as tweets, as sorted by the count of likes rather than the order in which they were posted. Back in June and July, before the X rebrand, Twitter briefly blocked users without an account from accessing the site in any capacity. That came to an end pretty quickly, thankfully, but we have since noticed that profiles have been altered for logged out users. Profiles would now show all posts as sorted by their like counts. The change, which seems to have taken effect towards the last week of July based on some posts, sees all tweets in a user’s history sorted by how many likes they have received. This new sorting of Twitter profiles seems to be strictly based on likes, and not views. Posts that have more views but lower like counts show up lower in the feed. The inspiration for this change isn’t clear, and there’s no way for a logged-out user to see tweets in chronological order. That’s
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