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!
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.
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.
with so many people with so many different opinions about a subject, how will twitter rank each of the tweets so that the information about a certain topic is useful.
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.
Does this mean they're no longer going to redirect all Twitter Search links for users that aren't logged in? I hate not being able to follow links to Twitter.
