RSSTwitter's evolution starts with a new homepage
By Tim Conneally | Published July 29, 2009, 10:47 AM
In Twitter's efforts to make the microblogging service more welcoming to first-time users, a new homepage has been unveiled which focuses on search and trending topics.
"We have a lot of work to do when it comes to the quality of our search results and trend analysis but repositioning the product to focus more on discovery is an important first step in presenting Twitter to a wider audience of folks around the world who are eager to start engaging with new people, ideas, opinions, events, and sources of information," Co-founder Biz Stone said in the site's blog.
But the increased emphasis on searching and trends is not solely an attempt to make Twitter more friendly to new users. It is actually an evolutionary step for the service. Twitter started out as a Web 2.0 property, a social network based on status updates, but it has evolved into the key property in the evolving real-time Web.
"Together with those who use it every day, the service has taught us what it wants to be," Stone continued. "From features invented by users, to applications built on the platform, we're still discovering potential. Twitter has moved from simple social networking into a new kind of communication and a valuable source of timely information."
Wow. 20 seconds and the page load isn't complete. People put up with this?
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|yeah, that does get annoying... SCALE
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|geez, calm down. bugs/slowness are all too common on new web content and let's not forget that given enough people trying to hit the site at once can take down the big guys (e.g. cnn being knocked offline by news of michael jackson's death).
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|oh nice they redesign the homepage. not like twitter wasn't a waste of bandwidth before now it is a bigger waste
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|you're right. people using twitter to get the word out about the iran protests was a total waste of time.
maybe next time before you make sweeping generalizations you'll take the time to research first?
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|I looked at Twitter a few months back and then did not use it for until a couple of weeks back, then at the weekend i deleted my account. It don't matter what they do to the web site, Twitter is still a waste of time.
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|It's great that you have nothing insightful to say and that no one is interested in hearing you say it.
you get the copy/paste treatment:
"you're right. people using twitter to get the word out about the iran protests was a total waste of time.
maybe next time before you make sweeping generalizations you'll take the time to research first?"
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|This design looks very good indeed. Well done Twitter!
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|timely information for the web crowd, but if the majority of the population used it... well, i don't know how that would turn out lol ... trends may take longer to trend, who knows, guess it depends on how they manage their algo and as well, you may have trends that many have no idea or really any interest in whatsoever... thats if the service really takes off, think 250, 300 million users... yikes
could end up with trends close to these:
1. madonna biceps
2. gossip cop
3. madonna photos
4. madonna pictures
5. todd genger
6. robin quivers bathing suit
7. greg fitzsimmons
8. heidi pratt
9. tanning beds
10. rorschach test
lol
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|well, people still have yahoo/bing for that :P
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