Your Twitter profile page is about to look a lot like Facebook, and chances are, you have a pretty strong opinion about it.
Nearly two months after the company quietly tested a new layout among a small group of users, news first reported by Mashable, Twitter is officially rolling out a new design starting on Tuesday. Social media users are notoriously adverse to change, with the slightest update often awakening the most critical of members, so it's not surprising the news brought a bevy of negative reactions, mostly with users calling it out as too similar to Facebook.
Among the major changes is that the user's main picture and bio are now scaled to the left, and there is significantly more real estate dedicated to the header photo. The revamped timeline makes tweets look larger and there is greater focus on photos. Although the original test had "tiles" or "cards" that moved away from a vertical timeline, this design reinstates what we're used to seeing.
In addition, tweets with more engagement appear larger in user timelines, and you can filter based on photos/videos, replies and so on. It's also possible to "pin" tweets to the top of your profile page, calling out specific content you want followers to notice.
Here's a look at the general (and mixed) reaction bubbling up on, of course, Twitter:
So, TODAY just exclusively previewed a twitter redesign. It looks like facebook. Brace yourselves for the "old twitter was better" tweets...
— Eric (@MrEAnders) April 8, 2014
yikes! my head is HUGE in the new twitter redesign that looks an awful lot like facebook
— Jed Bramwell (@jedbramwell) April 8, 2014
Terrible move, beauty of Twitter is it's not Facebook RT @mashable Starting today, Twitter is rolling out new Facebook-like profile redesign
— John Feeley (@hawks586) April 8, 2014
I love twitter for it's simplicity, to redesign similar to Facebook will be a mistake, IMHO.
— Jeff Morgan (@walespressphoto) April 8, 2014
Never met a redesign I didn't love to hate MT @mashable Twitter rolls out new FB-like profile http://t.co/c2GwNtfo8g pic.twitter.com/acmVxEnxBg
— Megan Cassella (@mmcassella) April 8, 2014
Most people will probably hate this, but I think its an improvement: http://t.co/Zd7LtRnFbZ
— Mark Ng (@clapfootmark) April 8, 2014
Twitter Rolls Out Its Facebook-Like Profile Redesign :/ I hate the New Look.. :/
— Pankaj (@iempk) April 8, 2014
I am clearly in the minority but I love the new Twitter profile redesign. It looks fresh and clean.
— S2 (@stuhunter) April 8, 2014
So much outrage this morning on Twitter about out the (FB-similar) profile redesign. When is the last time you actually viewed a profile?
— Matt Galligan (@mg) April 8, 2014
I actually do not hate the @twitter redesign. http://t.co/ABaD0ZZiij
— R Y A N (@mayanrelic) April 8, 2014
All Twitter users will get the redesign in the "coming weeks." Take our poll below and let us know your thoughts on redesign in the comments.
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