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Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Bookie — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:42:14 -0000

True, but I imagine that over time this new and more stylish design will be incorporated with the rest of the site and will replace the default simple layout as we see today.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Aprisa Chrysantina — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:14:28 -0000

Twitter function has altered from social network into social network and news media. And I think it's not an obligation for the users to utilize twitter for the former function only.

Twitter should follow the utilization trends (as it does) without changing its description or losing its main idea/mission (as it does).

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Belinda — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:51:19 -0000

Well, it's true that the old homepage was hideous, so I'm glad it looks prettier. Before I wasn't so sure about the singular focus on search, but now I see what they're going for with taking things in a new direction. So I think I like it now. One small tweak I would like to see, though, is a little more emphasis on what the potential new user can contribute rather than what they can find other people saying.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Shin-Howe Chen — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:23:33 -0000

I do wish Twitter would increase their features so it will give us even more of addictive attittude towards using this social media outlet. Though it was hilarious how they deleted a lot of accounts the past week...

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

paramendra — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:08:27 -0000

Good move. This is Twitter catching up with the users.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

JAVAJ9 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:52:47 -0000

You can still make Twitter as personal as you like, can't you? ... I suppose it's all in who you follow and who you choose to let follow you. If I'm wrong, please explain.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

JAVAJ9 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:46:53 -0000

I like the new homepage with its more accurate description and focus! I wonder, however, if they'll edit the Trending Topics for posting on the homepage (certain ones *cough* [insert your thought here] would not be great for PR).

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Jennifer — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:09:21 -0000

Great article...I wonder if this will hurt Twitter? They do something so well now, hopefully they will just be adding to the success.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

mohan — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:01:01 -0000

i love twiter , and it's new look,

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Mark — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 10:42:40 -0000

Twitter puts a search box and people think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, sheesh!

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

livemercial — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:51:56 -0000

One day, all conversations will be 140 characters or less.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Chris Horton — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:04:05 -0000

I love the new page. Looks better and explains the site better.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Steve_Dodd — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:53:39 -0000

Finally, a focus! Perfect. Twitter doesn't need to be yet another Social Network (ie: Facebook etc.) This is something it can do and win with. But, I do agree that the next challenge is to change the market perception and lose the "people think Twitter’s just about telling people about what cereal you ate" to "Twitter is the one place where you are plugged in to the collective world". And, I think if you look at how most predominant Twitter users have adopted the platform, they are already there. This make perfect sense.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

@bhu1st — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:53:26 -0000

i was shocked to see the changed homepage, in accordance was wishing to see some changes in the profile page too. but all my expectations were dead and twitter gets my thumbs down! (for the first time in my twitter experience) if you are killing/enjoying all of your time tweeting in, there should be a proper and managed way to keep up with your friends. Who you following are not only the business personal, some marketing professional, funny bots only but the real persons with real thinking behind and WE NEED SOME COOL WAY OUT to get in touch...

it's a good explanation - Twitter’s no longer about updating your friends, but about being THE place for global events. but yeah... i am loosing some sort of personal connection i had with Twitter now.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Dyegov — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:26:21 -0000

Most of the people I know could not even define twitter. They said they could not understand what it really was and that it was useless. Now they're going to realize the real potential. Nice move.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Seika — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 07:49:47 -0000

Microblogging like blog. Unless you’re some big celebrity news maker, nobody’s really interested in story of your daily life.
So… this means they encourage those peoples without interesting original ideas (thus become consumer only) to gather and comment around topics made by authorities they follow and the trends ?

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

June Yasol — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:39:24 -0000

Oh my, this is overwhelming!

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Ludwik C. Siadlak — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:35:40 -0000

I think it's just a first step to gather some user comments on if it's the right direction or not.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Twitte_r Skins — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:27:36 -0000

It was Time for a change, methinks. Was mucking about with the way back machine and it's quite interesting to see the evolution of Twitter from a design perspective. I prefer the newer login and the home page was a bit of a shock earlier for me. Now all they need to do is to change the profile page to be more in keeping with the new login/home page.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

himynameisniel — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:42:26 -0000

Twitter's plan for world wide domination is here!

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Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Dennis Jernberg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:10:16 -0000

At last, Twitter has found its true niche. Now if only they would use the same approach on the rest of the site that they now use on the homepage...

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Marcelo R. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:53:46 -0000

I like :-)

and I wonder if this will be the future of search engines? social and real-time....

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

Dhanuj De Costa — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:07:18 -0000

I saw this coming the day I joined Twitter. Its good that Twitter understood its potential. There's no reason why it should compete with social network sites like FB.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

ARB4 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:04:39 -0000

I like it.

Re: The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler

gsreddy — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:47:35 -0000

I agree with what Mr Khaki says --Twitter should try to entice 1 billion non-business users. Most of my friends, though internet-savvy, are not aware of or not interested in twitter. Twitter, I feel, should target such people. However, I liked the new homepage and its changed approach.