One lucky Twitter user has noticed some changes to his Twitter stream.
According to his post, Twitter has made more changes to its Timeline feature, which is your stream of incoming tweets.
Tweets will now expand when you click them, rather than show up on the right hand side. I personally found that experience to be hit or miss, with full conversations sometimes not showing up at all.
In my opinion, Twitter’s number one issue has been quickly finding any contextual information around a tweet or a reply. Will these changes make things better?
Media will show up in an expanded Timeline tweet view, making it easier to check out a photo or video attached to a tweet quickly and resuming your Twitter scanning:
Along with these tweaks, retweet and profile information have received new treatments, also staying close to the Twitter Timeline, rather than on the right hand side.
Here is a video showcasing the changes:
These changes make context around a tweet readily available without taking you away from your Timeline. These are smart changes by Twitter; hopefully the company will roll it out to the whole user base soon. With more focus on letting users consume more with doing less, Twitter will keep users engaged.
Where on this article does it show the date it was published? With online articles it's something that is extremely useful, as often they will be shared by people for some time. Before I share an article, I want to know how recent it is, so that I can "add context" to my own comment on the tweet I send the link out on....
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Likeand, if I signed in through twitter, why isn't my avatar showing?
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LikeClaire Boyles The date is at the beginning: 26 October 2011. I didn't see it at first either, because it is superimposed on (the left side) of the image banner with the article's title.
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Likeno doubt - anything Twitter does to actually thread context is positive - we use a host of external apps to gauge - clunky
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LikeI've seen this for a long time. What's new?
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LikeJacob Wilson In your Timeline? I still see the expanded or the selected tweets on the right side of the screen.
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LikeJacob Wilson That's what I thought too. But it becomes clear after actually going to the website that was referenced, and watching the relatively painless, only 30 sec video. You'll see what Fernando is referring to. Unless you truly ARE one of the elite insiders and have had this functionality for months already.....
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LikeConversation from Facebook
Twitter should be able to aggregate Tweets into days, months, years, and people in the conversation! it is a simple matter of grouping Tweets into brackets!
adds an extra click to commonly performed tasks. dislike :\