New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center

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Post by vaksel » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:00 AM UTC

New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center
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Re: New Twitter Homepage Goes Live With Search Front And Center

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Post by Oompa » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:09 AM UTC

Makes sense, searching Twitter is one of the useful things about it. It's like listening to conversations around the world about whatever topic you want.

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Post by barredo » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:09 AM UTC

I've just logged out and saw it. It has a pretty nice design and it's new main focus is clear: Search.

I think Twitter is also rolling out a new sidebar updates: http://i32.tinypic.com/8wb0w6.jpg

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Post by sidburgess » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:15 AM UTC

I really like how they have redefined their mission. For a long time, no one has been using Twitter (at least not primarily) to tell others strictly what they are doing. Twitter has finally turned the page, at least as far as their homepage is concerned, to allow themselves to be defined by their fans. Bravo Twitter!

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Post by taitems » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 2:15 AM UTC

I think we can all agree its a vast improvement on the dog's breakfast that was the previous front page.

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Post by dcurtis » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 3:02 AM UTC

Nowhere does the logged-out site answer the question "what is this?" anymore. I guess they are assuming everyone knows what it is already. I think that could be a mistake.

I wonder what will happen to the signup conversion now. I hope they did some solid AB testing.

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Post by click170 » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 3:07 AM UTC

Am I the only one here who's thinking "About fucking time"?

I don't regularly use twitter, I've used it to keep track of the pirate bay trials, and thats about it. It seemed absurd that search wasn't front and center on their homepage before, at least to me.

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Post by ivankirigin » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 3:20 AM UTC

dcurtis wrote: post #6

Nowhere does the logged-out site answer the question "what is this?" anymore. I guess they are assuming everyone knows what it is already. I think that could be a mistake. I wonder what will happen to the signup conversion now. I hope they did some solid AB testing.

  Twitter (tm) Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world

Doubt they do AB testing for their front page for such a big change, else TechCrunch would be all over that.

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Post by dc2k08 » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 3:22 AM UTC

They need to do something about the spammers who use it brazenly to remain continually on top of the search results.

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Post by ashishk » Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 3:42 AM UTC

dcurtis wrote: post #6

Nowhere does the logged-out site answer the question "what is this?" anymore. I guess they are assuming everyone knows what it is already. I think that could be a mistake. I wonder what will happen to the signup conversion now. I hope they did some solid AB testing.

I was thinking the same thing. I think their focus has shifted. Seems like they'd rather communicate what they do first, then convert higher quality users.