Twitter launches a whole new look for Twitter.com and TweetDeck, as well as its mobile apps that it hopes will simplify the user experience.
The revamp has six key components
Home- Home is basically your main Twitter feed. The layout has been flipped. One major difference on is that tweets appear on the right side and take up less space than they used to. The "who to follow" and trending topics run down on the left. A small window with your details and the "compose a tweet" box is on the top left.
Twitter said it has also added the ability to view photos and videos directly in the stream, below the tweets, rather than the pop-out box that currently appears to the right of your stream.
@Connect- The button allows a better way to see anything related to you, shows who has mentioned you and suggests some accounts you might want to follow.
#Discover- The button shows what’s tells your visitors that there’s an interesting conversation happening on Twitter, and lets them join in with just one click and points you to stories and videos based on popularity as well as your connections, location, and language.
Me- As the name suggests, the "Me" section is all about you. On top of that, the user interface has been given a makeover, with the pen in new Tweet button taking the form of a quill.
Facebook-style brand pages-Twitter will display the number of fully-featured brand pages on the platform.
Embedded Tweets-Tweets can be embedded on an outside site with a few lines of code accessible via the "embed this tweet" code on the permalink page. Those who view the embedded tweet can then follow its author on the spot, as well as reply, retweet, and favorite, without leaving the page.
"It's not just a visual redesign but a conceptual redesign to make Twitter more accessible to the next billion users," said Satya Patel, a Twitter senior executive, at an event inside the San Francisco-based company's future headquarters in an Art Deco building in a blighted neighborhood here.
Twitter, which lets people create messages called "tweets" of up to 140 characters in length still faces challenges; many people don't understand how to use the service, which includes symbols such as "@" and "#," and don't know what kind of information they can view on it.
The new look for the site is rolling out slowly, but anyone with an iPhone or Android device can check out the new Twitter right now. The new look will also apply to TweetDeck.
One main reason of the redesign is making “Twitter more accessible for all 7 billion people on the planet,” Jack Dorsey, chairman of Twitter, said during a press conference at Twitter’s soon-to-be new headquarters in San Francisco on Thursday. Dorsey added that the company has made it “simpler not just for people already engaged but easier for new people to discover it and find value in it. It’s the best place to represent yourself on the Internet.”



