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| Twitter redesign makes more of photos | Twitter redesign makes more of photos |
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| Twitter has relaunched its website and mobile apps to give users the opportunity to showcase their own photos. | Twitter has relaunched its website and mobile apps to give users the opportunity to showcase their own photos. |
| In what appears to be a bid to take on Facebook, users' new-look Twitter profiles will have more visual interest, with their photo stream now shown on their page. The stream will also appear below their most recent tweets. | In what appears to be a bid to take on Facebook, users' new-look Twitter profiles will have more visual interest, with their photo stream now shown on their page. The stream will also appear below their most recent tweets. |
| Users' profile pictures will move from being a small icon at top left to a large header photo at the top of the Twitter stream. | Users' profile pictures will move from being a small icon at top left to a large header photo at the top of the Twitter stream. |
| The move is in line with the company's plan to make the website more of a destination page. | The move is in line with the company's plan to make the website more of a destination page. |
| Facebook enlarged the display size of its images last year as part of a major overhaul that included the introduction of a timeline, streaming users' posts from the day they joined. | Facebook enlarged the display size of its images last year as part of a major overhaul that included the introduction of a timeline, streaming users' posts from the day they joined. |
| Twitter said its move was designed to "make your presence on Twitter more meaningful". | Twitter said its move was designed to "make your presence on Twitter more meaningful". |
| The new look will apply to Twitter's website, its iPhone and Android apps and its new iPad app. | The new look will apply to Twitter's website, its iPhone and Android apps and its new iPad app. |
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| 4 comments, displaying first | |
| 19 September 2012 1:45PM | |
| Twitter is pants. | |
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| 19 September 2012 2:53PM | |
| No it isn't. | |
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| 19 September 2012 7:29PM | |
| The only difference I've noticed on my Nexus 7 is that now the profile page has a massive dark space around a tiny profile pic. | |
| It's rubbish. | |
| Twitter isn't pants, but the company that's running it seems to be trying pretty hard to make it pants. | |
| Those clueless investors seem to be determining its direction now, and I reckon it's only going to get worse - like a movie made by its financiers. | |
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| 20 September 2012 9:08AM | |
| #ohyesitis | |
| If you have time you could become the first person to convince me otherwise. | |
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| Users' profiles get large new header pictures, while their photo streams appear below their most recent tweets | |
| Twitter has relaunched its website and mobile apps to give users the opportunity to showcase their own photos. | |
| In what appears to be a bid to take on Facebook, users' new-look Twitter profiles will have more visual interest, with their photo stream now shown on their page. The stream will also appear below their most recent tweets. | |
| Users' profile pictures will move from being a small icon at top left to a large header photo at the top of the Twitter stream. | |
| The move is in line with the company's plan to make the website more of a destination page. | |
| Facebook enlarged the display size of its images last year as part of a major overhaul that included the introduction of a timeline, streaming users' posts from the day they joined. | |
| Twitter said its move was designed to "make your presence on Twitter more meaningful". | |
| The new look will apply to Twitter's website, its iPhone and Android apps and its new iPad app. |