Twitter Has a New Home Page. Whats Your Thoughts?
If you live in a hole and you havent already heard, Twitter have relaunched their home page. Twitter is one of the fastest growing websites in the world at the moment and their user base has been both positive and negative on the new home page design.
Most people use Twitter for social networks and not for search, however when designing the new home page the Twitter team has put an obvious emphasis on the search aspect of the business. I know that most people already signed up to Twitter even see the home page much at all, because they can manage their accounts from a huge list of Twitter applications available, so they never even have to visit the site. The new home page design seems to be focused on a basic design with the ability to show new users what Twitter is all about, and thats conversations.
I think the new design itself is very aesthetically appealing and they have done a great job incorporating the search aspect into the home page itself. If I was a new users I could easily see what people are talking about and see that there is a huge community already on Twitter, which provides me with more of an incentive of joining. What do you think?
Other peoples thoughts on the Twitter home page design: Mashable, Techcrunch, ReadWriteWeb, BoomTown, Venturebeat and NY Times.
