SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter has unveiled a new look, and much like some previous changes the company has made to its short-messaging service, it’s not going over so well with the Twitterati.
The San Francisco company says the new design emphasizes simplicity, making it faster and easier to use, with bolder headlines and more intuitive icons. It also changed users’ profile images from square-shaped to round.
So fresh. So clean. So live.
Check out our new look. https://t.co/ClWbwi8CEH pic.twitter.com/nR27POQkEi
— Twitter (@Twitter) June 15, 2017
Twitter users immediately responded Thursday by tweeting jokes and memes critical of the changes. There were almost 30,000 tweets about the new user interface, or UI, within hours of the change, the vast majority of them either complaining about the new look or mocking it.
Twitter also took heat from users last year when it changed its algorithm that orders the tweets users see.
#OldTwitter Vs #NewTwitter pic.twitter.com/4VIDLY0AE4
— AJ Joshi (@AJ) June 15, 2017
Others complained about not adding the 'edit tweet' feature yet.
All we want is to be able to edit tweets! We don't care about the other 40 million things you've done pic.twitter.com/sZ7OgPuQ20
— Renee(@AyeeeeRenee) June 15, 2017
– With input from AP
