WTH Twitter's new interface

Calgary, Alberta
February 9, 2012 9:44am CST
First youtube, now twitter. We all said it so many times, if its not broken , dont fix it. Before in twitter you can filter out all the tweets you received from your followers and also the tweets you made. Now its so hard to filter it out from the tweets I get from the people I follow because the filter option is gone. This is frustrating. If you will change something, you better make it user friendly,the new twitter format is not user friendly. Its youtube all over again. I have to go through 5 to 20 pages of flooded tweets, to find all the tweets I received. Twitter use to be organized. #Itsnotbrokendontfixit
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@moirai (2948)
• Philippines
23 Feb 12
Ah! Hehe. First of all, sorry for the late reply. =P I had some computer problems which prevented me from checking my mail, and it is only now that I'm starting to clean up my inbox. =P Anyway, going to the topic. Yes, I noticed the new look of twitter when I finally got back to it, too. Admittedly though, I wasn't a regular twitter user before so I don't really know the specific differences between the new one and the old one. But I did feel kind of lost with the new one. Well, like someone else said, we can't really stop sites from changing their look or upgrading or something like that. Things don't really need to be 'broken' before it is 'fixed'. But yes, we would all appreciate it much better if the features that we found useful in the old style will be retained in the new one. This is the same way I'm feeling right now with Windows - because I have Windows 7 as my operating system on my new computer, after years of using XP on my old one. Things are different and it gets frustrating when I don't find right away what was so easy to find before. But in all new things, we get used to it in time. So I expect it will be the same for twitter. In time, you will be able to get used to the new look. ... And then when they change it again, you will have a little rant like this again (maybe =P ) saying you wish they didn't change it and hope they go back to this new look because you were more used to it. Lol!
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• Calgary, Alberta
24 Feb 12
still hated it but I already figured out to use this new format and most likely when the time I am confortable using the latest interface, they will change it again and make it harder., Its really nice that mylot haven't tried any change in the last few years. I wont mind additional features but a complete overhaul is really frustrating,
@moirai (2948)
• Philippines
7 Mar 12
lol! now that you mentioned mylot, you just jinxed it! they will do a complete overhaul now for sure. (just kidding)
@moirai (2948)
• Philippines
21 Mar 12
Before I answer your question... I'm just wondering what made you ask it? Did I say something wrong? =P And I'm also wondering why you picked those particular specifics...
@bloggeroo (2167)
• Philippines
9 Feb 12
I don't really follow anybody else at Twitter because I really hate messing up my timeline. Have you tried using the Lists feature instead of directly following someone? It will allow you to organize and monitor the posts of specific people. But then again, I haven't really tested that feature on any Twitter account other my own so I may be wrong on this one.
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• Calgary, Alberta
10 Feb 12
after 8 hours of scrambling I already get the new system and layout but its kind of messy, Its will still take another time of getting use to in my part.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
9 Feb 12
Oh,I never noticed the changes lately. It seems sites are upgrading huh- or having new look. There is nothing wrong with it- but yes, make it friendly user too. Stumbleupon recently changed their looks. Mypage5 made a lot of change as well. Now, twitter- okay, let me check :)
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@akp100 (13647)
• India
9 Feb 12
Hi Just noticed it after reading you here.. Yes they having new look. It look like every sites are changing their interface. I don't use twitter much, only for sharing my content, so not know much about it..But yes if anyone making changes in such sites then they should make it more user friendly instead of making it more complicate.
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• Calgary, Alberta
9 Feb 12
It will take me a long time to get use to this new interface. Damn its so hard to use. why internet is being cruel to me. I havent recovered from the change of format of youtube and now twitter.
• Philippines
9 Feb 12
I noticed that the other day. Just because they fix it, it doesn't mean that it'[s broken. We should understand why they had to change their interface. In the world of Social Networking Sites, If people get used to it, they'll be bored using it. So Twitter did that just to make some noise in the industry.
• Calgary, Alberta
9 Feb 12
yeah bad publicity is still good publicity. It just sucks that its so hard to use and its very confusing though.