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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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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.