Twitter Site Updated

Posted on September 18, 2008 - by brian hamm

Twitter Site Updated

You may be stumbled onto the Twitter site tonight and thought to yourself, “hrm.. something feels different”. And you’d be right.

The guys at Twitter are starting to roll out a series of updates. According to Twitter, this round is purely cosmetic.. and will support some future (not so trivial) updates.

I like the new look. The ‘home’ page and site designer are definite improvements over the previous versions. Doesn’t look like they’ve spent any effort updating the ‘followers’ and ‘following’ tabs this around.

A good step in the right direction, though..

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Posted on September 18, 2008 - by brian hamm