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03.31.10A New Home Page For TwitterIn a recent blog post, Twitter has announced a new home page, which aims to make the value of Twitter more obvious to new users visiting the site for the first time. The new home page features more dynamic content, showing a sample of "who's here", what people are tweeting about and the major trending topics. The home page features algorithmically selected top tweets, which are refreshed every few seconds. The trending topics are displayed scrolling horizontally, which allows more topics to be displayed in less screen real estate. The motivation for the changes is summed up in this quote: "All of our ...
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06.26.09News of Michael Jackson’s Death Crashes TwitterThe importance of Twitter as a medium for breaking news is confirmed tonight following the sad reports of the death of Michael Jackson. As I write this, AP has just confirmed that Jackson has died due to cardiac arrest. But I was first aware of the story about two hours ago when 'Michael Jackson' was the #1 trending topic on Twitter. This was at least an hour before the story appeared on any 'traditional' news outlets on the web. Right now Twitter is completely down - I can't even get the Fail Whale. This sad news story, demontsrates the importance of Twitter ...
