Thursday, July 30, 2009

Twitter missing the point?


There has been much talk of the new twitter front page which was launched to the world yesterday.

Much was positive but according to Todd Zeigler,

To state the obvious, the new site emphasizes search and trend tracking, and de-emphasizes orienting users new to the service. It looks the homepage for a search engine. This strikes me as a mistake. While I certainly use Twitter trends and search, the main reason I use Twitter is for the community of people I follow and who follow me. This social component of Twitter sort of gets lost in this version of the homepage.


So a groovy front page but maybe missing the point of its application?

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