After numerous complaints over several months, Twitter is finally addressing a frustration for many users.

While scrolling through your Twitter timeline you’ve likely had your feed refresh while reading a tweet only to be forced to scroll down in search of it.

While Twitter isn’t rolling out a toggle to disable and enable auto-refresh – at least that doesn’t seem to be the case right now – it is updating this “feature”.

“Over the next two months, we’ll be rolling out updates to the way we show you Tweets so they don’t disappear,” Twitter Support said late on Wednesday night.

How exactly Twitter intends to change this is an unknown quantity at this stage but we suspect these changes will largely be to the backend. The reason our thinking leans that way is because users don’t currently have the option to switch this feature on or off and we don’t foresee that changing.

Unlike many other recent changes to its products, this one seems good. However, Twitter can just as easily mess this up and make the feature worse.

We’re holding thumbs Twitter gets this right though, if only to end the frustration auto-refresh causes.

Let’s talk about Tweets disappearing from view mid-read when the timeline seems to auto-refresh. We know it’s a frustrating experience, so we’re working on changing it.

Over the next two months, we’ll be rolling out updates to the way we show you Tweets so they don't disappear.

— Support (@Support) September 22, 2021