Breaking Down Twitter's New Homepage

Last period we told you most the move of Twitter's newborn homepage. The revamped organisation sports a smooth countenance that is pretty cushy on the eye. But, erst you intend instance the delightful aesthetics, you'll also wager that Twitter has additional a search capability and popular topics, which in invoke could stingy an flow of Twitterers.



It should be noted that most Twitterers won't ever wager the newborn homepage, unless they logout of course. But, the newborn layout isn't for the "everyday Twitter user", it's meant for the non-tweeting crowd, or those that don't wager the ingest for it. Recently, WebProNews featured an article, "The Average dweller Still Unfamiliar With Twitter", which discussed this rattling topic. It seems as though Twitter hopes the newborn homepage module support displace in whatever of the non-Twitter users.

Do you conceive the newborn homepage module support intend newborn users? Tell us.

Twitter Search - Is Twitter competing with wager engines now?



With Twitter's body of search, on the homepage, they've today prefabricated Twitter useful... modify for those who move to tweet. WebProNews' Chris Crum wrote an article most this rattling topic, and here's his verify on what strength hap with Twitter search:

"When a newborn individual comes along to conceive Twitter for the prototypal (or modify ordinal or third) time, they'll wager that wager box. They'll feature to themselves, "What is this? I intellection Twitter was meet whatever nonmeaningful artefact to verify grouping what I am having for breakfast. It's a wager engine now?" Then they module move to wager that there is more to acquire from Twitter than what they previously thought."

You strength be asking, "What is the bounteous plus to a Twitter wager versus, let's feature Google?" The move is simple. With Twitter, you intend real-time results (which is the inbound bounteous abstract in search). Twitter modify highlights this characteristic on the newborn homepage with the mass header:



But, don't conceive for a ordinal that Google doesn't undergo they're New to the party, in regards to real-time search. Google's possess Larry Page has modify stated:

"I hit ever intellection we necessary to finger the plot every ordinal to earmark real-time search.  At first, my aggroup laughed and did not conceive me.  With Twitter, today they undergo they hit to do it.  Not everybody needs sub-second indexing but grouping are effort pretty agog most real-time."

Will Twitter be healthy to attractiveness whatever searchers absent from Google? Let us undergo what you think.

Trending Topics... umm... I stingy Popular Topics



By today you've belike detected that Twitter has additional "popular topics" to the homepage. But, these aren't your everyday, strikingness page, trending topics. With these you crapper today see what's favourite correct now, today and this week.

If you're ease blurred what the favourite topics are about, Twitter offers the mass statement :

"Twitter looks at every inbound tweet, then ranks the popularity of destined text or phrases in actual time. Click whatever of the favourite topics beneath to wager what grouping are locution most them correct now."

The newborn favourite topics, connected with search, seems to be a strategy that Twitter is employing hoping it leads to newborn users. @Biz had the mass to feature most this on the Twitter blog:

"...demonstrating the noesis of Twitter as a brainstorm engine for what is event correct today through our Search and Trends ofttimes awakens a significance of wonder which needs leads to a such more compelling question, "How do I intend involved?""

What are your thoughts most the newborn "Popular Topics"? Tell us.

Popular Topics / Search Results Pages



Let's feature you poverty to wager ground "Apple Claims New" is a favourite topic, so you utter it. You're then taken to a re-vamped results page, with an additional element. Twitter today displays a statement of ground the matter is popular.



This newborn statement module come in rattling accessible when those mismatched cost locomote up into the favourite topics. Below, you crapper feature Twitter's statement of this newborn addition:

"Twitter looks at every inbound tweet, then ranks the popularity of destined text or phrases in actual time. Click whatever of the favourite topics beneath to wager what grouping are locution most them correct now. Some matter descriptions are sourced from What The Trend."

Besides the newborn description, the results pages are pretty such the same... but they do climb the newborn updated design. I do desire Twitter would've merged the FriendFeed variety of ajax auto-refreshing abstract they do, that could be overturned soured and on, of course. (It should be noted that the wager results pages countenance identical.)

Do you encounter the newborn descriptions helpful, or distracting? Let us know.

Twitter's New Search Tips



Upon clicking a favourite topic, or doing a search, you'll attending a newborn feature in the column, a "Search Tip". Sure, these tips aren't anything to indite bag about, but they do highlight whatever of the underused wager operators. I've included a whatever examples of them below:

"Use source: directly before a portion Twitter maker (like a screen or ambulatory app) to encounter tweets posted via that client. Example: defy source:tweetie module encounter tweets containing "weather" and entered via Tweetie."

"Use :) to encounter tweets with a constructive attitude. Example: flick :) module encounter tweets containing "movie" with a constructive attitude".

"Use until: directly before a limited fellow to encounter tweets dispatched before and until that date. Example: ftw until:2009-07-16 module encounter tweets containing "ftw" and dispatched until fellow "2009-07-16" (year-month-day)."

Do you currently ingest whatever Twitter wager operators? Tell us.

Twitter's Sign up Page



Twitter's clew up tender is belike my large complaint with the newborn design. Why didn't Twitter update the clew up tender with the newborn look? Isn't this tender the most essential to them? It's the digit that brings in the newborn users.

The clew up tender seems rattling dulled and dull when you study it with the newborn look. They could've at small denaturized the colouration plot to match, but maybe since this tender is employed substantially for them, they didn't poverty to modify it. Personally for me, it feels rattling garbled from the newborn recent countenance they got feat on.

Should Twitter update the organisation of the clew up page? Tell us.

More Work Ahead

Even though the newborn Twitter homepage looks great, @Biz is hurried to add that they ease hit a aggregation of impact to do:

"We hit a aggregation of impact to do when it comes to the calibre of our wager results and way analysis but repositioning the creation to pore more on brainstorm is an essential prototypal travel in presenting Twitter to a wider conference of folks around the concern who are hot to move attractive with newborn people, ideas, opinions, events, and sources of information.

We'll probable continue to attain changes to the Twitter bag page as we move to feedback and ideas. We're hot to wager if hortative a significance of astonishment and brainstorm leads to a meliorate prototypal notion of Twitter."

What are whatever changes you would propose for the Twitter homepage? Let us know.