The Bird’s New Tricks
October 04, 2010For the next few weeks the now massive social networking site will be rolling out new features and site designs. Along with the new site design Twitter debuts its new logo witch incorporates the popular “tweet bird”.
The new look starts with the timeline. Your new timeline will have links to mentions, retweets, searches, and lists all right above your timeline, with your followers and trends to the right, just like the old design. They have also added infinite scroll so you no longer have to click more at the bottom of your timeline. The new features also include the ability to get more detailed information about a tweet. Just click on a tweet and an info pane will show up next to your timeline that displays related content like who retweeted and replayed to the tweet. Another new addition is that media such as YouTube, Flickr, twitpic, twitgoo, twitvid, and Vimeo will be shown in an info pane next to your timeline as well.
The one thing that the new design lacks is real-time-new-tweet updates, there is a notification for new tweets but you still need to refresh the page to see the new tweets.
The design overhaul is long overdue because it seems like we have been looking at the same old Twitter for the past 4 years. Or have we? Will this help bring Twitter users back to their home base or will people still continue to use 3rd party applications for tweeting? Twitters next step should be to overhaul the twitter iPhone app.
