San Francisco, California, United States, It was about time that one of the world online giants would appear in a new design and lay-out. Today Twitter announced their New Twitter attack for a larger piece of the pie in the social network market place.
The radical new website is available to millions of Twitter users from around the globe and their new approach will attract many millions more, this move is clearly an effort to enhance their market visibility within the social network industry.
Micro Blogging
Twitter made micro blogging (SMS for internet) what it is today. It had a slow start but soon the whole world was tweeting each other. The real boom came when celebrities, writers, politicians and music artists started to tweet for PR purposes and to be closer with their fans and followers.
Twitter and Tweets
Twitter Users are tweeting each other about anything and everything they experience in life, or want to share with others. Twitter has become a highly effective marketing tool.
Facebook offers a very similar options called the Wall.
The New Twitter Features
The company announced it has reached agreements with 16 companies around the globe who all carry video, Flickr and Youtube are two companies in that list, the will be enabling embedded video into the Twitter website.
Twitter CEO Evan Williams
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said on Wednesday; “we upgraded to a faster, easier and richer experience – it is a better way to discover what is going on in your world – we want people to get more out of it in less time – The web has no mechanism to keep up with what is going on around us fast, Twitter fills that gap.”
The CEO admits that many have struggled to find useful information in Twitter. He promised users that the new design and the systems behind it will offer a wider range and easier access to information posted.
In the near future users are allowed to add pictures, video and other media to their Tweets.
Twitter is growing faster then any online company in the world, 370.000 new users are registered every single day. Twitter claims to have 100 million registered users.
Facebook vs Twitter
Facebook a highly popular social network site and among the highest traffic sites in the world they claim to have 500 million registered users.
Twitter still has a fair bit to go to reach the top, next to Facebook, but the new applications offer a good shot at target.
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