Twitter Has New Facebook-Style Makeover

Subject: Twitter Has New Facebook-Style Makeover Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:40 pm

Quote :: Twitter has unveiled a brand new design which allows users to have a more detailed profile page and greater visibility of conversations between tweeters, giving it a more similar feel to Facebook.

The new layout is centred around four tabs: ‘connect’, ‘discover’, ‘me’ and ‘tweet’.

The biggest changes are the addition of a more detailed profile page, the ability to see all of the activity surrounding one tweet directly below the message (in a similar fashion to Facebook ‘comments’) and the ‘discover’ tab – which surfaces new relevant content for each user based on their interests.

Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s director of platform, flew over from San Francisco to the company’s UK headquarters to reveal the new design and explain the rationale behind the makeover.

“We realised that tweets are not just tweets – they are photos, videos, articles ... and we know users want to see all of that content in one place and not just the URL. So with the new design we have focused on showing tweets as packages.”

In the new Twitter feed, every tweet can be clicked upon to reveal an expanded view showing all relevant interactions beneath it, as well all media – such as photos, being shown in full.

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