Twitters New Re-designed Interface

Twitter has a new design, and as said on the blog, the new Twitter provides a faster experience, rich interface and easily accessible.

Besides the design, there are other points that have been improved in twitter:

  • New Design – Timeline with a cleaner and more details panel that gives more impact to each individual tweet.
  • Media – You can embed photos and videos directly to Twitter.
  • Related Content – Learn about the author or the theme answers, other user’s tweets, map, etc.
  • Mini profiles – click upon it name to see a mini profile without leaving the page.

The following video can be viewed and new design:

Twitter revamps its home page, only realtime search now!!

A brand new Twitter homepage. It’s new, it’s very blue, and it’s all about search. In fact, from the looks of it Twitter has decided to take the simple and straightforward front page route, centered around search. Gone are any attempts to explain Twitter, or a link to the Twitter in Plain in English video. Instead, the Twitter homepage features a big search box, along with popular topics right now, over the past day, and from this week.

Here is a before and after screenshot of twitter home page.

Before:
twitter-old-homepage

After:
twitter-new-homepage

The fresh new look is big departure from the previous homepage. I’m Wondering if look changes will make their way into the rest of the Twitter experience.

To check out for yourself, just head to twitter.com. Share your thoughts in comments below.

Twitter gets a new following/followers page, major UI redesigns and multiple new features!!!

If you are wondering what happened to the old boring and simple following and followers page in twitter, all that has been changed! Twitter announced, viewing other people’s followers and followings temporarily disabled http://tinyurl.com/lsq3gg and as all of you might have guessed it was disabled because of the new updates that was coming on its way ….

Now when you click the Following and Followers links from your Twitter account you’ll notice some major changes. Twitter has upgraded some of the design of the pages and added multiple new features.

Here is a screenshot of the new Expanded and List view in twitter followers’ page!

expaned twitter followers page

list view twitter followers page

In addition those new features, When you click on Followers, Twitter now shows you a check mark beside the people who you are reciprocally following.  Like with the page I mentioned above you can @ message, direct message, follow (if you’re not doing so already) and the option to block.

Here is someting from the official Twitter blog about the new upgrade to twitter…

“Instead of a basic list, there are now actions you can perform that provide a better overall experience. For example, you can turn on SMS, unfollow, mention, block, direct message, and more.”

What do you think about the new updates? Did it help you? Do you like it? Let me know by posting comments below :)

Facebook:A company that does not listen to user needs, finally wakes up!

Facebook

Users are still buzzing angrily about Facebook’s recent homepage redesign. The latest installment of this social media drama is an email Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sent to his employees stating that “the most disruptive companies don’t listen to their customers.” This is in addition to a popular application that has polled users on the redesign, with over 90% voting in disapproval. The firestorm simply doesn’t subside for Mark Zuckerberg and company.

When a vote was conducted about the new design of Facebook, here is how people voted about the new design:

 facebooks new design sucks - vote poll

And now after hell lot of criticism about the new design, Facebook seems to wake up all of a sudden and respond… From the latest blog post in Facebook, new improvements are on its way:

Here are the top four things Facebook has been hearing from all of the people putting in feedback about the changes, and the areas where Facebook is focusing on improvements immediately and over the next several weeks.

Add more control and relevance in the stream:
One of the great parts of Facebook is the ability to share and consume different types of content, such as photos, videos and notes, all in one place. We’ve heard from you that you want even more variety and control in your stream, and for it to update automatically. Some specific improvements we’re making are:

Live updating: One of the most common requests is the ability to see your stream update automatically. We will be adding the ability to turn on auto updating in the near future so you no longer need to refresh the page.

Photo tags: In order to surface more photos you might like to see, we’ll be adding photos tagged of your friends to the stream. This will happen in the coming weeks.

More choices for applications: We’ve heard feedback that there is a lot of application content appearing in the stream. We will be giving you tools to control and reduce application content that your friends share into your stream.

See more Highlights: Highlights will update more frequently and will show you more content throughout the day to mirror more closely the content that the earlier News Feed provided.

Easier way to create a Friends List filter: From the filters on the left, you will be able to create a new list of friends with which to filter the stream.

So far there are 4,970 others who liked the new changes like this. Well if you think this is OK and this is what you wanted to change in Facebook that’s good news for you…. Comment on here and let Facebook know if you’re a happy chapper! :)

Interestingly, tonight’s post didn’t come from Mark Zuckerberg, as has been the case with past “apology” notes. Instead, it comes from Christopher Cox, “Director of Product.”