What is supposed to be going on here? I must be here to look at a bright red bar. Perhaps it is purposefully horrendous, coercing me to swap it for a panoramic?
And, two tweets?
My entire computer screen, and I am served 280 characters of content.
Is it just me?
I feel like I picked up a novel, and there is just under one sentence per page.
Increasing the font size leads to more retweets and favorities that what you are saying which means it's good that your tweet has an ability to go viral with re tweet and favorites isn't it ?
I've never really liked the look of the Twitter website either, but Tweetdeck is alright and has better functionality.
Thank you! Tweetdeck looks so much nicer than twitter does.
I do find Twitter useful for networking so it may be worth the investment!
I've only noticed the profile changes in passing. I'm almost always using Twitter on mobile.
Just took a look on the web. The fonts are pretty big. Just noticed they have my activity inlined too. You can see when I followed a group of people. I have mixed feelings.
Yeah. It's getting weird. The icons annoy me as well and it just seems like they're trying to be something they aren't. https://twitter.com/_t_a_y_/status/459589342243991552 Get used to this shit though. Now that designers are younger and digital only, trends have shifted, and usability tests have shown the whole above the fold thing is not 100% necessary, it's only going to get worse.
Wow. I haven't been using FB much after dropping it from my phone. They are very similar. Hiding content below the fold is one thing, but IMO not being able to interact with any of it without scrolling is bad design for a number of services, Twitter being one of them. For a Medium article, I am going to have to scroll anyway to interact with the one thing I am there for. It's tolerable. However, Twitter has a core status/update functionality that should be served, at least to some extent, by casual perusal. But, like you said, it seems like they are trying to be something they aren't. They probably found the more you have to scroll, the longer you are on the site, which would be a positive signal leading to a negative experience.The icons annoy me as well and it just seems like they're trying to be something they aren't.
Yup. And insane amount of user testing and eye tracking has been done on facebook's profile designs and it's set up in an ideal way to maximize the information you can get about a person quickly. The big brand image is also the thing users spend the most time looking at and brand's love this. Giving them real estate to sell their brands is necessary to keep those people who actually pay for ads. Once a company restructures to focus on money, the person using the service for free falls by the wayside. Keep in mind, Twitter is now public which means it has shareholders to answer to. Shareholders want ad dollars. Brands want to promote their brand. Consumers don't get shit.They probably found the more you have to scroll, the longer you are on the site, which would be a positive signal leading to a negative experience.
There lies my problem with Twitter. I never feel the need to use it while outside, on mobile, because I'm, well, experiencing the things outside. I feel like a phone for tweeting interrupts the experience. I can only ever think of clever quips to say in front of my computer. Which is funny, because I'm boring in front of my computer in real life.
I have never used Twitter myself, but whenever I visit someone's profile it always takes me a second to get used to how threads (is that the term for them?) are organized. Clicking on different tweets in the same profile opens the entire conversation again, and if you're on someone's profile you see their tweet history at the same time, so you end up with identical messages from any number of people in multiple spots on one person's feed! How confusing...