Facebook blog had Sam Lessinan updating a post, which can be noted as below:
“We announced Timeline in September and made it available to developers building apps on our platform. Since then, over a million people have signed up for the developer beta to access Timeline. The feedback we’ve received so far has been invaluable. Starting today, we are making Timeline more widely available as we measure speed and other types of performance. We’ll begin by making it available to people in New Zealand and then roll it out more broadly in the near future.”
The post even hints that others might not have to wait too long, as the said feature would be out for other areas too, in the near future. However, they have not displayed a timetable as to when and where would it be rolled out, but one can be rest assured that the news of its roll out would be known to everyone.
If one is still ignorant of this unique feature, then here is a short and crisp official description about timeline:
Timeline is wider than your old profile, and it’s a lot more visual. The first thing you’ll notice is the giant photo right at the top. This is your cover, and it’s completely up to you which of your photos you put here.
As you scroll down past your cover, you’ll see your posts, photos and life events as they happened in time. You choose what’s featured on your timeline. You can star your favorites to double their size or hide things altogether.
For further knowledge about the feature, one can direct themselves to the link here.
There was even a briefing from a Facebook spokesperson, who made a note via an email on this topic. He wrote: “As a global company, we need to gain perspective and insights from outside the US. New Zealand is a good place to start because it’s English speaking, so we can read the feedback and make improvements quickly.”
Timeline has been in news since the CEO of the biggest social networking site broke the ice about it at the f8 conference in September. To roll out this feature, Facebook took around 10 weeks, since f8.
The social networking giant would be hoping that its users would appreciate the feature and would not face sheer criticism once again.
Facebook launched it partially only in New Zealand, and this might give rise to some conversations as to why were the Kiwis lucky enough to be the first recipients of the feature and not U.S. Thats a basic point, but looking at Facebook’s controversies’ list, one can expect Facebook users to criticize the social networking giant on this ‘not so necessary’ point.