Twitter launches new design for its website

Twitter launches new design for its website

The new design aims to attract more advertisers and thus achieve more profits (Reuters)

Company launched "Twitter" micro - blogging American on Tuesday a new design for its website shows photos and videos directly on the home page that publish Tweets subscribers , while he was on the previous joint pressure on the Tweet to show images or video clips attached to them.

Although not affected the basic mechanisms for a way to share content on Twitter new design , it is likely to affect this change in the atmosphere of a social networking site , which has long stuck to its roots as a location for text messages that do not exceed 140 characters in the stage before the advent of smart phones.

The Twitter began in 2006 as the site for the codification mini appear tweets in the form of short text messages consecutive But with the initial public offering of the shares of the company that owns his decision in a matter of weeks , the new design will provide the advertising companies greater opportunities for the dissemination of advertisements striking in front of the eyes of users, and thus achieve more profits for the company .

Recognizes the company a long time ago that the photos and video clips from more content prevalent in social media , and was Tweet the most popular in the history of Twitter, for example, is a picture posted on the personal account of U.S. President Barack Obama is shown a hugs his wife Michelle moment announced his election victory in 2012 and wrote underneath only three words " four more years ."

And the new design says Vice President Twitter for products , Michelle captivity , in a short message posted yesterday that he " can these tweets rich to attract followers to be the closest of what is happening and make them feel as if they were there with you ," he said, adding that they wanted to make it easy for everyone to test this moments Twitter .

Has attracted new look to Twitter immediately different reactions from some technology experts and users first who saw many of them that this design , which relies on the images will be accepted more when new users of Twitter who might find that the old style of the narrative text in the arena is confusing.

But other analysts such as Matthew Ingram see the contrary , where he wrote the last on the site " Gagaom " says Twitter was in danger of being what some call the effect "MySpace " (which is an expression of an excess of ads and images showy ) , due precisely because the Guard " old to Twitter accustomed to sequential text " in Twitter , wondering if the number of advertisers to this design enthusiasts will compensate the company for the number of users disgruntled or frustrated him ?