Tip: Looking for an interface like #OldOldTwitter? Try Kanvaso. Also see “How to get your mentions view back after Twitter deletes it“ UPDATE: Learn more about #NewNewTwitter here.
The keyboard shortcuts at Twitter.com are now:
Actions
- f : favorite
- r : reply
- t : retweet
- m : direct message
- n : new Tweet
- enter : toggle details pane
Navigation
- s v Search videos
- s p Search pictures
- ? : this menu
- j : next Tweet
- k : previous Tweet
- space : page down
- / : search
- . : refresh Tweets and back to top
Timelines
- g h : home
- g r : replies / mentions
- g p : profile
- g f : favorites
- g m : messages
- g u : go to user / search for user
Overall layout
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Source: @jmacofearth • uber.la
Is this why they didn’t fix a lot of old Twitter issues?
Old Twitter has dozens of outstanding issues that have been lingering, many for months. Some they have made half-hearted, half fixes on—and now we might know why!
Product manager Josh Elman said that he expects Twitter will be more like Google than Facebook — a destination for quick visits rather than extended time-wasting and engagement sessions.
The New Architecture
This is an all-new architecture for the website, featuring:
- Greater responsiveness/faster;
- A more stable architecture;
- The new website is based on the API (what Twitter clients run off of) and API limits will be going away.
- Built on the @anywhere platform.
What’s NOT included
- Multiple accounts still NOT supported via web.
- Team features & analytics NOT available via website…yet.
The Official New Website Video
Twitter is a breaking news outlet, not a social network, says VP Kevin Thau. And the reason the Annotations feature was put on hold was because the infrastructure team was working on the Twitter.com launch, Ryan Sarver, Twitter’s platform team, said.
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The old Twitter Web interface was always deficient, and inferior to virtually every third party app. However, with the use of scripts and add-ons such as Monkeyfly, PBTweet and troyntscript, Web Twitter became not only far more functional and versatile, but a real pleasure.
Many of the features of new Twitter long existed in other robust apps and browser add-ons. However, many essential and frequently requested enhancements were omitted, and long standing objections ignored. Currently, there is no remedy. None of the old third party enhancements are compatible (though new ones are being developed). This has severely limited an individual’s ability to customize the new interface to suit his needs and Twitter style.
I appreciate the need to monetize Twitter, and IMO the new interface was designed to facilitate that. But commercialization is neither my goal nor my problem. And nothing, from the mighty Microsoft to the humblest freeware, can be warmly accepted by the majority of users if it cannot be tailored to some extent to suit *their* needs.
If this were not so, apps like TweetDeck, Seesmic, Hootsuite, et al would not enjoy the huge popularity they do. Many timid users who NEVER strayed from Web Twitter before are now fleeing to these other apps. In reading their tweets, it becomes clear that for most, it is not a resistance to change (after all, they are happily adapting to “new” apps which better serve their needs). It is a rejection of new Twitter because it *doesn’t* serve them.
Since its introduction, Twitter has been relatively unresponsive to legitimate problems, complaints, and feature requests concerning the new interface. This is counterproductive if the goal is to keep old users and attract new ones to Web Twitter. The commercial user cannot pimp his product if people are discouraged enough to switch away from the main commercial platform!
Very well said, Jillian.
I think Twitter’s unresponsiveness has been in part being massively understaffed, and having to build an infrastructure largely based on triage-style priorities. However, that situation has I fear created a corporate culture that is less responsive to users. Hopefully both the infrastructure and culture can be improved now that Twitter is staffing up rapidly.
Can someone who liked Old Twitter and didn’t want to switch explain why they didn’t want to? I’ve been using New Twitter for quite a while now, and never liked Old Twitter. I’d just like to know what all the hullabaloo is about.
For one, New Twitter has performance problems for many people. Blank pages, etc. Also, there is no notification system that you have new Direct Messages. But I think most people became comfortable with Old Twitter and found New Twitter to be so different as to be alien. As I can tell you from years of tech support, few people like having working features they are comfortable with removed.
Even though people “should have” spent some time getting comfortable with New Twitter before being forced to make the changeover, it was so far out of people’s comfort zones (as compared to old Twitter) that I’m sure many didn’t want to make the effort until forced to.
An equally big problem is that Twitter also changed search at the same time, and forced filtered search as a default onto everyone. So at the same time people were forced to switch, Twitter “removed” tweets from their search results. Bad idea. Twitter’s filtered search (“Top”) should have been made optional, not default. The option that causes Twitter search to work the same as it used to is “All.”
When wll start/ gt a use to newtwitter? Its sounds good
I would expect almost everyone would have #NewTwitter in early/very early October. However, there have been a variety of issues with it, so they may change how they roll it out. EDIT: By October 13, it had been rolled out to everyone.
I’m still waiting to see New twitter design for my Twitter account..
New designs are live for many users and many users like are in the queue..
New design is more promising and I’m sure it will increase the no. of users for web interface of official Twitter client..
I think you’re right
Twitter always did innovations. This new tweet pane is another milestone. But how Twitter chose 1% of those users from 160 million regsitered twitter subscribers? What is the criteria? Who decided it? When it is decided? Whom it is awarded? Where was the meeting? Which is the city? How it was decided?
Are we deprieved? Why?
It is being given out worldwide to everyone, and other than giving to a few select people (such as media) at first, it is otherwise somewhat random criteria for deciding who gets it when. Right now it’s just the first 1%—more people will get the interface all the time. They will probably have to pause a few times in expanding the number of people who get it as they work out bugs. We don’t have it yet.
Reeeeeaaaalllly looking forward to this!
cant wait to start tweeting in the new format
I already find the web more useful than other clients…some of the time. So I’m really looking forward to seeing how useful it actually is. A lot will depend on how stable it is, and how well they deal with the inevitable problems.
This is great… looking forward to checking it out
Will be interesting to see how many people switch to the website from other clients. My guess is that the web will get used more, but few will switch.
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