Twitter

Twitter Re-Design

Rumored in February and official on Tuesday, Twitter’s profile pages are undergoing a fundamental redesign. The Twitter blog has announced the changes this morning, noting that they’re only effective for a select group of users for now, but will be rolled out globally in the coming weeks. If you really can’t wait, you can sign up for a new account and the new look will be your default starting position. Visuals have been growing increasingly important for Twitter and the new design pushes them even further to the fore, with larger background images and more prominent profile pictures. There’s an unmissable similarity to Facebook’s profile pages, with the user’s photos and friends both being tucked into a tile layout on the lower left. Other novelties include a size adjustment to tweets relative to how engaging they’ve been.

Read the full story at The Verge.

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