A Twitter redesign that’s rolling out incrementally alters the layout and lets users post pictures and videos directly on the site rather than just link to them.
Engadget took a look at the remade site and found that not all the changes were for the better:
The in-line content makes the experience all the more enjoyable. Conversation threads are vastly improved, but it only shows one reply back at a time — you can go through an entire timeline, but it takes far too many clicks.
Whether or not it’s a good idea to improve the workload for the site’s continually beleaguered servers remains to be seen. We’ll let you know if we discover whether or not the Fail Whale gets a new look.
Twitter unveils new website with picture and video content embedded on site (update: hands-on!) [Engadget]
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So does this mean my new tweets will outshine my first 21,000?
Sounds like it is making its way to another social network.
By the time I get off Facebook and try this twitter thing, it’s just going to look like a Facebook.
cuz no other site lets you post text, pics and video. Yawn.
Now what if I posted a picture with all words that was longer then 140 characters!! I found a way to cheat their system!!!
Plus they wouldn’t be able to mine my info which they are eventually hoping will net them revenue!
Whew. Luckily there isn’t anything like OCR. If there was, we would need a system to display an image which something with OCR couldn’t read, but a person could. Perhaps I can call it Recaptcha…
I guess I forgot to end my comment with /sarcasm
Everyone I know who uses twitter uses an alternative client like TweetDeck, Seesmic, or DestroyTwitter. I suppose part of the reason for these changes is to lure people back into using the web page, but I’m certainly not switching.
Twitter trying to be Facebook lite. Is that a shark tank I see
Take that, John Mayer!
Take that, John Mayer!
As long as the pics and vids are on separate servers from the twttierstream and when they get overloaded they fail independently.
Also, I assume that unless this was anticipated by Apple, there is a very good chance the new video streams will not play on the iPhone. If that is the case, then Twitter and/or Apple will need to address it ASAP.