Twitter isn’t known for making frequent design alterations to the site nor anything particularly major when they do. That said, over recent weeks the site had made a number of design refinements, the most significant being the homepage redesign.
One noticeable area that didn’t see any sign of change was the sign up/login form that followed the homepage. Now, although Twitter has still yet to do anything drastic, the background to the sign-up/login form has been replaced, along with the default Twitter background once you’ve created your account. The following/followers/tweets figures have also been given a crisper text formatting – helvetica I believe?
Default avatars have also been changed to a slightly more modern and colorful range. And the 404 page and suspended acccounts pages have also been redesigned completely.
Sign Up
404 Error
Suspended Accounts
Thanks Simon!
As more teenies and crimmies hack and exploit then Twitter will become stricter and stricter until ALL good things are gone and there are just wardens and cops left.
Have you also noticed that the text in the side bar has its descenders cut off? The line-height should be at least 1.2em in selector ‘ul.sidebar-menu li a span’
Very frustrating that they did not announce this change properly. I had the shock of my life when I logged in to twitter this morning and found that my background had changed. Given the shaky security reputation of twitter I immediately thought someone had hacked into my account!
What universe do you live in? We blogged so much today Zee and me are about to keel over. Twitter’s unofficial motto is ‘How can we make something new by leaving something out’ so if they change ANYTHING it is newsworthy.