This week has witnessed the second big User Interface update of another major social media site first being stumbleupon and this time it is “twitter” . Twitter has given a fresh look to its User Interface.
Twitter has given a big push to make the microblogging service a easier one to use for its users and also to help the companies to better to showcase their brands better on twitter.Brand pages that are already prevalent on Facebook and were recently added to Google+ are also set to become a permanent feature on Twitter as the micro-blogging service pursues ad revenue. As per the company’s statement this new version which was introduced yesterday(8/12/2011) will be rolled out to all its users gradually.
This upgradation in twitter comes as a wake of stiff competition it faces from it’s rivals Facebook and Google+. This new addition will help twitter to add more advertising. On speaking of the recent updated version of Twitter Dick Costolo – Twitter chief executive stated
“We have to provide the simplest and fastest way for people around the world to connect to everything they care about”
Twitter has the largest registered active users next only to Facebook. It allows the users to send tweets in 140 characters . After Apple’s introduction of Twitter service directly to its software in iphone ,Twitter has seen a rise of 25% in new user registration. Here let us see few features that twitter has introduced in its new version.
- Home Page : The profile information and the followers and following count goes to the left side which was previously in the right side.
- A new option on each Tweet “open” will let the user know all the information about that tweet, like the times it was retweeted and also marked as favorites.
- An interesting option “Discover” help you to know about a corporate page or an user in a more redefined way.
- The tweet button and search bar has been changed.
- “Connect” page is divided into two parts that will give you a detailed view about activity you are doing in Twitter.
- Searching relevent categories which was not so effective in the previous version has been redesigned.
