Twitter Redesign Sept. 14, Do You like the Old or New Site Better?
Which Site Do You Read Tweets from the Most, TweetDeck, Twitter.Com Or Another?
Mentions: Instead of clicking @UserName on the right-hand panel, you can click @Mentions right below the "What's happening?" tweet field.
Retweets: There will be a dropdown box to check out all of your retweets instead of clicking "Retweets" on the right-hand panel.
Searches: You can now use a dropdown menu to look for search options instead of typing it into the right-hand panel.
Lists: There's also a dropdown menu for the lists below the "What's happening?" tweet field.
Not impressed yet? Me neither.
But what I do like on the new layout is the option to click on individual accounts without pop-ups. On TweetDeck, if you want to follow several tweets from one user, you'd have to click on that person's Twitter name. Mine is set up so the Twitter URL opens up in a new Internet page and I can see all the tweets. With the new layout of Twitter.com, you don't have to go anywhere. Their latest tweet will show up and if it includes a TwitPic, that photo will be big enough to view on the same page instead of opening a new page. The most impressive part is that videos can now play on the right-hand panel without a new window, too.
Personally, I don't want to open three windows for one tweet.
On the current Twitter scrollover, you can only "Reply" or "Retweet" a message. But on the new layout, you can "Favorite," "Retweet" or "Reply."
The new right-hand panel also shows who you're following, your followers, favorites, listed, suggestions on who to follow, trending topics and Twitter lingo.
To check out a visual version of the new look of Twitter, click here to see the video. While you're at it, feel free to follow me on Twitter @Maroonsista.
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4 Comments
Post a CommentOkay Lyn, I just checked out UberTwitter. I don't have a Blackberry so that one doesn't fit. HootSuite would've been very useful for me when I had a Facebook account, but I got so tired of Facebook that I closed the account. I re-open it only when I have to send someone a message and don't know his/her e-mail address, but now I see why you have HootSuite. I just can't get into MySpace and Facebook the same way that I do with Twitter, but I get it now.
Whew, Lyn, why does everything you do sound like 15 jobs at once? First you type articles on two or three computers and now this. I'm worn out just thinking about your day. Just kidding (kinda). I haven't checked out HootSuite though, but it took me almost a year to even get into TweetDeck. I still don't know what UberTwitter looks like. I think I'll visit all four to see which one I like most, but I don't really need anything fancy.
more than 'one' account. ;)
Well, it's a step in the right direction. But I will continue to use HootSuite because it offers all the features that help me the most. I manage more than Twitter account for various businesses. So, I need to be able to control them all at once, see them all at once , and have all those other options HootSuite has that makes things quicker and easier. Until Twitter lets us link accounts, integrate RSS, track click stats, etc, I will have to continue using HootSuite to manage it. :)