Within the next few weeks Twitter will reveal its new website which will make viewing information on the site easier in all aspects. Even the co-founder of the website admitted, "...he was surprised that so many people use the service-160 million- given how difficult its website is to navigate". Although the site has been up since 2006 they have not had the resources for the re-design until now, which is unfortunate since apparently the site has many flaws and crashes frequently.
Some of the main problems are having to go to new pages to learn more about a post or author of a post, following conversations is difficult and photo links within posts bring users to a new site altogether. Now users will be able to manage information between two panels rather than on a timeline of posts. Posts will be in the left pane and in the right there will be more information about the author of the post, photos and videos. This will eliminate having to click back and forth between pages or being redirected to a separate site. Posts will now be continuous so its easier to follow and manage conversations.
While I don't personally use this site, I know people who do and it seems like these changes will be really effective. Twitter grew at a rate unexpected by its developers and they weren't able to keep up with the changes. However at least they are now working to make the site better for the users and keeping them in mind for the changes they are making.
Twitter is something that strikes me as the perfect gift for somebody who has too much time on their hands.
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