Twitter announced tentative plans to revamp its algorithm to provide more relevant content to users. But not all of the network’s users are happy about it. That’s because the algorithm could work like Facebook, and display not the most recent tweets, but the tweets that Twitter’s algorithm works out are right for you.  

The concern is rooted in the idea that the internet, and Twitter in particular, is an unfiltered flow of information, many from voices traditionally ignored by the media.

Saeed Jones tweeted that the shooting of Michael Brown may never have reached national attention if Twitter adopted Facebook’s filtering methods.

Given how Facebook’s algorithm buried news stories about #Ferguson, this is horrible news for Twitter. http://t.co/MslQcmJMvA

— Saeed Jones (@theferocity) September 4, 2014

.@twitter don't filter our feeds from the green mvmt, to net neutrality, to ferguson, to occupy, you've provided unfiltered info dont stop

— Ricky Reed (@Wallpaper) September 5, 2014

The company’s Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto publically reassured users that they, “are not going to wake up one day and find their timeline completely ranked by an algorithm.”