&gt; Now I&#x27;m just praying that their new &quot;while you have been away&quot; crap doesn&#x27;t get default (or if it does, make it opt out).<p>This is actually the first thing they&#x27;ve added that really bothers me. Not the feature itself (I&#x27;m sure this is incredibly useful for many people), but that there&#x27;s no way to disable it for people (like you and me) that don&#x27;t find it the least bit helpful.<p>Most people (I think) follow very many accounts (many of which are quite &quot;noisy&quot;) and probably miss most of the tweets of those they follow - but I don&#x27;t follow many accounts (and only a handful that tweet more than say a few times a day) so whenever I open Twitter (several times a day) I scroll down to where I left off and read up.