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The Coming Twitter Redesign
Twitter's creative director is working towards a Twitter redesign? Perhaps timed to Chirp, which is a full-on conference by Twitter, about Twitter, featuring the founders of Twitter! (A funny thing about the conference? The "student rate" tickets of $50 are entirely sold out, but the identical non-student tickets, at $469, are not sold out.) Anyway, the reviews on this snippet of the redesign are in: "Awesome! Convinces me of using the Twitter site to post new tweets. Great work!"
Cheep.
Great, Twitter will include statistical information? Now it will be a popularity contest (like serial frienders on facebook).
Some of us just want to bitch about the train that hasn't arrived or tweet pictures of our cat.
Didn't Twitter Impresario* Ashton Kutcher ensure the whole popularity contest thing around the time of the whole "race to a million followers" thing?
*(his actual title)
Look who's not registering even if you put bamboo shoots under my fingernails!
#evenifyouputbambooshootsundermyfingernails was a trending topic the other day.
Twitter ye not!
#naynayandthricenay
The redesign and stats are likely an attempt to push more users towards the site and away from third-party apps. I'd expect that there will be new ad spaces built into this redesign, and a massive ad blitz to launch concurrently.
For all of twitters success, the VC is going to dry up if they don't at least have a revenue stream in place (let alone, actually become profitable).
Twitter does have a revenue stream. If you expect such a stream to be advertising because such has worked here and there, you would be making a mistake.
Twitter's creative director is my esteemed colleague Doug Bowman. He'll produce an excellent visual design, though if experience is any indicator the code and semantics will be poor.