Twitter Redesigns Around Four Concepts: Home Timeline, Connect, Discover, Me #LetsFly

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

Eric Eldon is a writer at TechCrunch. He was previously the cofounder and editor of Inside Network, where he managed publications including Inside Facebook, Inside Social Games and Inside Mobile Apps. Before that, he spent a couple years covering technology and finance at VentureBeat, a leading Silicon Valley publication where he was the first employee. While Inside Network sold... → Learn More

Screen Shot 2011-12-08 at 9.49.55 AM
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Twitter is starting to push out a significant redesign of its service that makes the interface simpler for all users across all of its platforms. The goal is to resolve complexity around concepts like the hashtag or the ‘at’ symbol.

Twitter has a new page up about the changes (fly.twitter.com) and a video, below. I’ll follow it with some screenshots. My live blog notes here.

The four key elements are a new homepage timeline, a better way to see anything related to you, an interface for easily finding context for hashtags, and a slicker user profile (as well as a fuller-featured one for brands, apparently).

I’ve just gotten access to the mobile app. Here are a few screenshots to illustrate the changes.

Home. Sweet home.

Connect. A fuller view of everything related to @ replies.

Discover. Hashtag-driven search.

Me. The new profile page.


Product: Twitter
Website: twitter.com
Company Twitter

Twitter allows users to post text updates via SMS, instant messaging, email, Twitter’s website and third party applications. Users have their own profile page that displays their latest updates. In addition, users can become “friends” with one another, or simply be a “follower.” Other than reading another person’s profile page, a user can also receive others’ updates through text messages, RSS or third party applications. Twitter itself is a free service, though users may have to pay text messaging charges...

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