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New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center

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41 pointsvaksel15 comments

I really like how they have redefined their mission. For a long time, no one has been using Twitter (at least not primarily) to tell others strictly what they are doing. Twitter has finally turned the page, at least as far as their homepage is concerned, to allow themselves to be defined by their fans. Bravo Twitter!

Am I the only one here who's thinking "About fucking time"?

I don't regularly use twitter, I've used it to keep track of the pirate bay trials, and thats about it. It seemed absurd that search wasn't front and center on their homepage before, at least to me.

Makes sense, searching Twitter is one of the useful things about it. It's like listening to conversations around the world about whatever topic you want.

with so many people with so many different opinions about a subject, how will twitter rank each of the tweets so that the information about a certain topic is useful.

Does Twitter really have someone who writes up the explanations manually for trending topics? For example:

Google Voice is a popular topic on Twitter right now. July 27th: Apple blocks Google Voice applications from the iPhone app store.

twitter is turning into google reader. and google reader is turning into twitter.

Nowhere does the logged-out site answer the question "what is this?" anymore. I guess they are assuming everyone knows what it is already. I think that could be a mistake.

I wonder what will happen to the signup conversion now. I hope they did some solid AB testing.

  Twitter (tm) Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world

Doubt they do AB testing for their front page for such a big change, else TechCrunch would be all over that.

I was thinking the same thing. I think their focus has shifted. Seems like they'd rather communicate what they do first, then convert higher quality users.

First thing I noticed was that the search button is slightly off (Google Chrome).

Does this mean they're no longer going to redirect all Twitter Search links for users that aren't logged in? I hate not being able to follow links to Twitter.

They need to do something about the spammers who use it brazenly to remain continually on top of the search results.

It doesn't say what it does. Who do they think they are, Google ?

I've just logged out and saw it. It has a pretty nice design and it's new main focus is clear: Search.

I think Twitter is also rolling out a new sidebar updates: http://i32.tinypic.com/8wb0w6.jpg

I think we can all agree its a vast improvement on the dog's breakfast that was the previous front page.

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