Twitter has rolled out its new look for the web profiles to all users after giving early access to a limited celeb group earlier this month.
Twitter, the renowned micro-blogging website, rolled out its major web redesign of profile pages to all users, Tuesday. After almost a month of testing with a closed group of celebs, Twitter finally decided to introduce its user-base to the new profile homepage that lets them post a header image, a profile picture and some interesting functions to highlight tweets.
Twitter initially rolled out its new interface earlier this month, but only to a limited group of users. The new design, which is a significant change from the previous profile outlook, may look familiar to most users as it looks identical to Facebook's timeline. The header image on Twitter's new profile homepage is identical to Facebook's cover photo and the profile picture is placed just on the lower left hand side of the header. One thing is certain with the new design, it is user-friendly.
The micro-blogging site highlighted three most important features in the official blog post on Tuesday that are a part of the redesigned web profile page. These features are mainly related to users' tweets, but it makes the new web profile experience distinct from Facebook. First off, users will find their tweets with more engagement appear larger than the ones with lesser user engagement. This makes it easier for users to look for popular tweets.
Twitter users can also pin favorite tweets to the top of the profile page. This is the best way to show your followers what you are up to. Another feature called Filtered Tweets can help users choose which timeline to view while visiting other users' profiles. Users can just see tweets, tweets with photos and videos or tweets and replies.
To get the new profile, users can sign in to their respective Twitter accounts and a notification will appear on the top of the profile to try the redesigned homepage. After reviewing the new profile, Twitter will prompt users to make it permanent and by accepting it users will be switched to the new design.
Twitter's redesign suggests a major shift in the company's working style to attract new users. The social networking site announced a new feature that brings real-time pop-up notifications to engage users in instant tweets with others and also extended the interactive function to its infamous Direct Messages. Twitter is doing everything in its power to take on its biggest rival and the world's largest social network, Facebook, and only time can tell if the micro-blogging network will succeed eventually.
