I was part of the fortunate ones that got an early glimpse into the New Twitter. I’ve just been playing with it this evening, so here are my first impressions.
You can probably find a lot about what the New Twitter (aka #newtwitter) is on a web search. Here is a good post by Mashable. I do agree that it felt a little more Facebook-ish. The YouTube intro to New Twitter does make it look fun and interesting. New Twitter makes better use of the real estate on the growing number of larger, wider desktop monitors.
I suppose the question is: how/when do I see myself using it?
Most of my tweeting is done from my mobile phone. I am very less often tweeting sitting in front of a computer. If I am, it’s probably because I want to power-tweet — you know, track multiple streams, reply to people, follow an event that’s happening, find interesting things to retweet, etc. For this I would probably stick to something like Hootsuite where I can view my multiple, customized streams.
The New Twitter seems much more like something you would sit back with and browse with. It is very convenient to view posted pictures/videos, conversation threads and see user profiles in the same view. I think it is a good fit for iPad in landscape mode (funny thing is it defaulted to mobile version initially). It’s a good way to kick back and find interesting people to follow…although maybe now I should check out the “official” iPad app and see which is better.
Tags: #newtwitter, Facebook, Hootsuite, iPad, Mashable, mobile phone, New Twitter, retweet, Social Media, Twitter, YouTube
