The New Failwhale: Twitter Homepage
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It's easy to not use Twitter because you have nothing to say. It's harder to ignore Twitter if it's THE place to go for all of the world's events.
Even the 'best' twitterers can't seem to control the urge to spout junk on a fairly regular basis. Too much stream-of-consciousness for my taste. Better filtering would go a long way towards making twitter more usable for the general public.
My colleague does a twitter search on his subway stop every morning. A bunch of tweets complaining about crowded platforms means he takes a different route. I like the redesign. It's about time they recongized that using the great twitter feed is more useful to most people than personal microblogging.
It seems that someone might be confused by twitter since the search focus disappears after you create an account.
My Grandma knows about Twitter, which puts the total number of websites she can list offhand to 2, the other site being Google.
To that regard, I think this guy's redesign conveys that message better to someone who has no idea what twitter is. People who already have a twitter account will almost never see this page. Thus, it should be focused entirely on acquiring new users.