If you happen to use the micro-messaging
news and social media platform Twitter, and spend as much time or more with its
desktop website version that than one on your app and tablet, then you might
have noticed some significant differences with the former at the start of this
week. If one would look at the bigger buttons, the larger navigation icons and
the feeling of bigger space on twitter.com then you have just seen their latest
desktop refurbishing at work. In a way, it seems as if elements from the mobile
app version have been transplanted to the website.
The Verge has it that Twitter has given a wide release to their new
desktop design for the twitter.com platform website. Testers have gotten an
advance taste of this renovation of the site for the past few months now, but
pretty soon all Twitter users will be seeing the new desktop look on their
browsers. It is inevitable too because the social media service is making this
changeover mandatory, with no alternative option to switch back to the previous
look with the small font size and more. If you are a mobile tweeter on the
other hand, you are sure to feel right at home.
That is no idle boast either, as
mobile users will see a familiar button, “Explore,” right with all the other
navigation options on their new place to the left sidebar. According to Twitter, they have added Explore
for desktop users to get them to add more live videos for example. The Home and
Message buttons will switch one to their Twitter timeline or DMs, and the
Notifications are as the name says. The Tweet button opens up the post entry
portion, which no longer automatically appears at the top of the feed, something
old Twitter veterans need getting used to.
On the right sidebar can be found
the Trending section, with the trend topics arranged in a format akin to online
news websites. For those who are wondering where Moments are, the tab has been
excised from the new Twitter desktop. But there are new possibilities in its
place. Being able to Bookmark tweets is new, and the “Sparkle” button switches
your feed between reverse chronological and curated. Multiple account holders
can now switch in between their pages without logging out once. Variable color
schemes are also available if white already bores you. And thankfully Twitter
retains its Dark Mode.
Woah, what’s this? A shiny new https://t.co/q4wnE46fGs for desktop? Yup. IT’S HERE. pic.twitter.com/8y4TMzqBGa— Twitter (@Twitter) July 15, 2019
The Twitter user community tends
to be finicky where changes are concerned; and reactions to this new form for
the desktop website has them roughly split between approval and bile. For the
micro-social network however, their user base will have to suck it up. This is
how things are now.
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