<i>"We believe there are still significant benefits to increasing awareness of what’s happening outside the home timeline."</i><p>Significant benefits like increasing the adoption rate for third-party twitter clients, perhaps.<p><i>"Evidence of the incredibly high usage metrics for the QuickBar support this."</i><p>I tapped it once by accident while trying to swipe to see if I could delete it.<p>If twitter want to turn a spammy feature into a useful one, they need to start asking users about their interests, or else attempt to determine them algorithmically.