You may already have tested the new Twitter, I bear with one of my accounts1. I bear to say that it is completely different! Well. the tweets are the like and your followers and people you are following. and the messages will be the same. I'm talking around the way and the way things work. It took me a week to get used to it.2
The biggest change is the width: it's twice larger! Yes, twice! (well.
at least the proper column. That way the Tweeter output will take most of your screen up. I think that they will keep the smaller view available for cell phones. But on my desktop, that's just plain BIG. In itself, it's not a problem, you get lots more information on the screen. But...
The event is that now your background image will "break" (Our Snap! Websites Twitter background is shown on the left, see the resolution in our screenshots below. Most people won't see lots of it anymore when they are on the new Twitter. Although it is nevertheless there, unless the users receive a very wide screen, but don't look on it. It will want to be changed...
On that one, I'm wondering how much research Twitter has done. It may be voice of their design of adding advertising interleaved with your tweets. (which I thought they started, but so far I've not seen any of those commercial messages anywhere! So getting your crap out would be a serious side effect3. (This is truly my total speculation and I'm probably wrong...
So. With the new interface you get a card at the top to change between your Home area, your Profile, and your Messages. I'll cover those below. (Click on the screenshots to see a large version that you can read!) Home Area
"Click to Enlarge the Snap! Websites Twitter Home Page"> The screenshot on the good shows you the Snap! Websites Home Area. It includes the common spot to place a message, the messages of the people you are following(your timeline), and stats about your account, favorites, number of lists where you are listed, trends, people you might wish to come and the Twitter dictionary thing (I question if they will provide us different widget one day. Personally, I truly don't worry about their definitions and would not mind something more useful in that corner.)
An interesting new feature near the National Arena is the way to display the final few tweets of a soul as you click on one of their tweets in your timeline4. It uses a technology called AJAX to get the information from Twitter and show it on the good side without having to reload a good page. You can see the lead on the next screenshot. Obviously this action covers your stats that you probably don't want to see anymore anyway. (Note that the top-right corner has a close button, just in case. This allows you to understand many tweets in a row. Just click on each person's tweet box to say there other tweets.
title="Click to Enlarge -- Twitter Home showing tweets of the people you're following">Notice that as before you can mark tweets as favorites, you can retweet, and you can respond to the author with your own tweet. The links for those actions show up as you go the mouse over a message.
By the way, you may likewise have noticed how our Snap! Twitter logo looks like. It's mostly hidden by the new Twitter style! I think I will give to convert it with our My-Status.net background which is the see of a deal called Le bout du monde5.
Note that although the make of each Twitter accounts on the remaining is black, it is however a join that will have you to that person's account. This gives you the power to quickly review someone's stats and to Unfollow them (but who does that, really?!)
Finally, at the top of the number of tweets, you can see a set of tabs. Those are exploited to alternate between different lists:
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