For me, the &quot;while you were away&quot; feature shows me things I don&#x27;t care about. I do indicate so by clicking the &quot;X&quot; to train their engine - but it hasn&#x27;t shown me anything worth caring about.<p>For example, I really care about funny cats. My timeline is 85% cats, and I retweet funny cat pictures 65% of the time. However, the while you were away feature shows me things like opinions about voting, or holidays, or what co-workers are doing and saying, etc - Yah - it&#x27;s in my feed, but I literally don&#x27;t care. I spend 8 hours a day with my co-workers and hear all their tweets first hand. All I want are fun cat pictures from places that I haven&#x27;t seen before to make the day easier to pass and to ward off depression... and it&#x27;d be great if twitter can make me a cat picture search engine. But for now they haven&#x27;t done that for me yet.<p>Maybe they can allow a user to curate the &quot;while you are away&quot; algorithm so I can have a core set of twitter accounts that I really want to keep track of while I&#x27;m away ( <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cuteemergency" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;cuteemergency</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;EmrgencyKittens" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;EmrgencyKittens</a> ) and&#x2F;or weigh explicitly which accounts I want to train my personal preference algorithms ... It would be pretty easy too since the lists feature already exists - just make it so the algorithm only pulls from an indicated list.<p>Until such a function exists I think i&#x27;ll keep it off and just enjoy the cats.<p>Anecdotal, but I can see how this feature might or might not hit the target. All I can say is I hope they keep it an option that can be disabled or enabled and they don&#x27;t take away the option box for this.