Twitter has invented a new tool that is going to make browsing your timeline easier. 

As we see Facebook pivot more towards video and Instagram take more and more of the social media audience away from Twitter, the company has been keen to help its users better interact with their timelines.

To that end, new research has surfaced which shows Twitter's new tool which can tell where you're looking and alter the setup of your feed accordingly.

In January, the social media giant announced it would start rolling out a new tool that will help determine exactly which portion of an image should be displayed in tweets.

Using machine learning research, two engineers at the company explained in a blog post the process behind the new tool.

Since Twitter first enabled photo uploads in 2011, the company has struggled with figuring out how to show users the most important information.

Thanks to the ability to upload various images at once, Twitter photo grids could look messy showing you random bits of photos rather than a uniform centered part of them.

Twitter used to try and find a center point of an image and crop around that, or use a rudimentary face-detection tool to crop around faces - but that's all about to change.

Thanks to this new tool, Twitter has used machine learning to figure out where you'll look first, cropping the preview image around the most 'impressive' part of the photo.

It's only a small upgrade, but it's one that's likely to change how you use Twitter on a very simple level: it'll save you time. 

In a world where apps are geared around providing you with the best quality of life improvements to make you spend more time on them, this is a big deal.

In theory, you should be able to scroll down your feed without having to stop, enlarge photos and move on now.

Eventually, it seems Twitter wants to give you the option to choose how your photos are edited for preview but as this new feature rolls out it looks like it'll be mandatory for all.

Let's just hope it works as planned.