Twitter's 9 Biggest New Features: What You Need To Know About The Redesign (PICTURES, VIDEO)

Twitter on Thursday introduced a dramatic overhaul of its website and mobile apps.

The redesign focuses on simplicity and encourages participation from both established users and newbies who might not be familiar with the site's modus operandi. A new emphasis on organization will streamline the site's features. Bringing hashtags (#), @mentions and personalization into the foreground, Twitter has broken the site's layout into four separate sections. A customized feed will help users easily discover and interact with new content. Twitter has also created unique pages just for brands.

The company hopes to "bridge the gap between the awareness of Twitter and the engagement on Twitter," said CEO Dick Costolo said at the design's launch at the company's new headquarters in San Francisco, according to the AP.

TechCrunch says of the revamp, "While some aspects of the redesign look like reorganized versions of what was there before, the heavy incorporation of symbols could help the service become more mainstream than ever."

Check out the slideshow (below) to see Twitter's 9 biggest new features.

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[Viresh]

03:28 AM on 08/09/2012

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[Viresh]

03:23 AM on 08/09/2012

Twitter is really established with the latest avenues, which really help social media to grow a buisnes page.

[Victor Stanescu]

01:11 PM on 12/15/2011

Twitter was lacking the public eye's attention so they wanted to get back in the game!

But let’s not get side tracked here, there’s the one main underlying reason for all these changes: the profit.

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[mystic23]

08:33 PM on 12/11/2011

There's something funny about people in a HuffPo commentary thread talking about the lameness of Twitter.

[Rose Moon]

06:24 PM on 12/11/2011

These are some cool changes, but who reads Twitter on the Twitter site? I use a desktop client tucked away in a corner of my screen. Or I read tweets on my phone.

I generally love Twitter's graphical presence, but the rounded corners here, especially as rounded-corner pods, are a bit yesteryear. But overall I like the design of the Twitter site, past and present.

[Kitoon]

05:33 PM on 12/11/2011

Twitter is lame. End of discussion.

[Raspberries0]

05:08 PM on 12/11/2011

Twitter is for people with not signs of intelligent life. Reconnect with reality, not meaningless minutia.

[Raspberries0]

05:11 PM on 12/11/2011

Geesh -- no. Now if I was one of those twitter types, I could have twittered this error. It would be of the caliber for a tweet.

[kirkewilliams]

08:57 PM on 12/10/2011

They took away a feature that I liked with Twitter for Android. You could swipe a tweet and then retweet it. Now you have open the tweet to retweet it. :(

[SeptemberMay]

04:22 PM on 12/09/2011

Honestly, I'm so tired of these overhauls. I don't use mobile apps and I resent being forced to use a design tailored to them -- it's confusing and more time consuming than the old design. For example, I used to be able to click on a Twitter name in a user's stream and their page would pop up in the right hand column, making it easy for me to follow them. I could continue down the stream and click on someone else, and their profile would replace the last.

Now, I have to deal with a pop up -- which means every time I want to follow someone new I have to "X" out of the pop up first to go back to the Twitter stream I was looking at. This is ridiculous. I am now less inclined to use Twitter and will be looking for a program that is easier to use. Twitter should have given people a choice.

[acnMobility]

12:08 PM on 12/09/2011

These welcome changes are huge step forward. The new graphics and menu functions dramatically improve the site’s usability and appeal. With 100 million users, but many fewer regularly tweeting, traffic may soon increase exponentially.

[vesaversa1]

10:41 AM on 12/09/2011

Twitter still have a lot of bugs to get out .I want try to name them all because there are to many .

[Film Shark]

10:39 AM on 12/09/2011

I love Twitter. My friends don't get it. It's a great marketing tool if you understand how to use it properly.

[jtanglewood76]

09:44 AM on 12/09/2011

fix your slideshow - it never shows up on Chrome and your iPhone App sucks too.

[iDrifter]

09:52 AM on 12/09/2011

Its not showing in Safari too.

[94613]

09:09 AM on 12/09/2011

Better Livin thru Twitter...

[No-name-plz]

09:07 AM on 12/09/2011

I'd like to suggest a small hotdog icon for all those fun loving politicians who like to tweet.