The latest-look Twitter.com website, which was released last night, features a new viewing ‘pane’ that will display videos and photos, shared through Twitter by its users, directly within the homepage. Previously, users had to go away from Twitter.com to view pictures and video on third-party sites, such as TwitPic or yFrog but now the images and videos will be displayed alongside tweets from a user’s Twitter stream.
The new-look teitter will roll-out to users in the coming days, could help to make the Twitter.com homepage more attractive and ez to users.Basically many users use third-party applications, such as TweetDeck or Twitter for iPhone, to access the microblogging service. But an overhaul to the Twitter site could persuade more users to update their status and interact with other users that way.
Evan Williams ( Twitter’s chief executive ) said “It’s about getting more out of Twitter in a lot less time” .
Twitter has signed agreements with a huge number of third-party providers of Twitter photo- and video-sharing to integrate their services directly in to Twitter.com. Companies such as TwitPic, yFrog, Ustream, Vimeo and YouTube have all signed up to the service.
“Improving consumption of Twitter-based content is important not just for Twitter, but for interactive marketers as well,” said Augie Ray, social media analyst at Forrester Research.
Its ammazing to beleive that around 90 million tweets are sent on the microblogging service every day.
Source : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/twitter/8004043/Twitter-unveils-multimedia-friendly-redesign.html