Why Your Twitter Feed Now Looks More Like Your Facebook Feed
日期
2014-02-07
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Twitter just got a visual makeover. The social media company today announced that photos and Vine videos will begin showing up automatically in users’ timelines. It may seem like a small change, but the sprinkling of photos and videos throughout user timelines will significantly alter the look and feel of Twitter, which has been heavily text-focused since it was created in 2006. Previously users had to click an individual tweet to expand it and show multimedia. Buttons for replying, retweeting and favoriting tweets, which used to be hidden until an individual tweet was highlighted, are also now permanently visible for all messages. The changes are likely geared at making Twitter a more visual and user-friendly experience. Other recent changes illustrate Twitter’s shift away from being a simple, text-based messaging platform. Twitter is implementing elements to make it more similar to the largest social network of them all, Facebook
