A first look at the new Twitter

December 09, 2011 | Online Marketing

Thursday morning, Twitter started its launch of a brand-new interface. The changes are fairly drastic, but they have a surprising and delighting effect. It might remind you a bit of the design of Facebook’s Timeline.

Twitter’s navigation has been distilled into four buttons: A Home button, which shows the timeline of tweets from people you follow; a Connect button, shaped like a ‘@’; a Discover button, which is the familiar hashtag (#); and a Me button, which contains your profile, your direct messages, your favorites and more.

The change isn’t just cosmetic — a lot of features have been moved around, and some have disappeared entirely or have been hidden from public view. The still-new Activity tab, which holds information about what your Twitter friends are up to on the service, is now under the Discover (#) button. That set of data has been separated from “Interactions,” a new section under the Connect (@) button that shows what people are following and retweeting you. There’s also a single button for Mentions, also under the Connect dialog.

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