The New Twitter
On September 14 this year, Twitter announced on their blog about the new Twitter.com. According to its blog, the new Twitter provides better, easier, faster and richer experience. They are currently rolling out the new Twitter to random users but eventually all users will see it very soon. I just had my new Twitter preview last week and sincerely, I liked it a lot. Unlike most of my friends, I am currently using Twitter.com or Twitter Web as referred by some quarters.
There are other proprietary Twitter clients like Seesmic, TweetDeck, or UberTwitter offering more advanced features. My last Twitter client is Seesmic Desktop and it worked well for me except that it loads very slow on my computer; and TweetDeck just don’t perform any better. Since then, I had abandoned all the Twitter clients and use Twitter.com. I believe all Twitter.com users like me would welcome the new Twitter as it really changed the way we navigate the timeline and simply put – you can see more in a screen.
The only small setback with the New Twitter is that it has a wider working areas (marked with red square line in the sample picture below) compared to the present Twitter. While this is good, the wider working areas had left little space for the image background. Many serious and powerful Twitter users had customized and designed their own Twitter background to reflect their personalities or businesses. And most of these backgrounds were carefully designed to display some texts or pictures just outside the working areas. Taking @TravelMagazine’s Twitter page as an example, below are the pictures showing how their page looks like in the present Twitter versus new Twitter.
Present Twitter page of @TravelMagazine: Click picture to enlarge
@TravelMagazine's Twitter page on New Twitter: Click picture to enlarge
Notice that new Twitter will hide parts of the important background that include texts and images on the left and right hand sides of working area that TravelMagazine wants their followers to see. However, please note that you can only see this when you’re in a signed-in mode. If you’re not signed in and open up any Twitter page or profile; e.g http://twitter.com/TravelMagazine; the background will looked just fine.
What do you think? Have you had a chance to preview the new Twitter yet?
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