Barely
a week after introducing its
redesigned website,
Twitter is seemingly testing a new profile design that will be a
complete departure from its original style. The pictures of the test
screenshots showcase the new profile design, which is very similar to
that of a
Facebook Timeline, or Google+ profile page. Amongst others
changes, the manner in which the elements of the profile have been
placed has changed dramatically.
According to a report by Mashable, its
assistant features editor, Matt Petronzio spotted a new update to his
Twitter profile page, on Tuesday. A screenshot of the updated profile
can be seen above. The bio and the main picture had been moved to the
left, underneath which are the 'Who to Follow', and 'United States
Trends' sections. This looks like the Facebook Timeline page of users.
The new design has more focus on photos and also on content. In fact
there are pointed similarities between the Facebook Timeline wall, with
its cover photo and the profile picture overlapping on it.
Under
the header photo (akin to cover photo on Facebook) there are the Tweets,
Photos/Videos (new), Following, Favourites, View Lists sections. There
is also the Edit Profile tab on the far right side of the page. If the
reported design rolls out, it would seem Twitter is in favour of
ditching its rigid text-based vertical page design, and is moving to
Facebook's erstwhile mosaic styled Timeline view. It is also important
to note that Facebook recently switched to a vertical view for its
timeline.
While the micro-blogging website has posted growth in the
fourth quarter of 2013
there has been a slowdown in its growth ever since it went public last
year. There are a lot of questions to be asked though, about this
probable new design. Is Twitter just testing a new design?
Will it
actually go live for the general populace? And if it does, then what
will be the response of the people to the new look, given that its new
design revamp which was released last week had received mixed reactions?
All these and more are questions that will be answered only if the
speculative design change does make it to Twitter officially. Twitter
has not commented on the new design change.
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