Microblogging site Twitter announced Thursday a new design that according to the company emphasizes simplicity, making it lighter, faster, and easier to use.
Changes include bolder headlines, more intuitive icons to make it easier to engage with Tweets, and live updates to reply, Retweet and like counts so people can watch conversations unfold in real time.
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The design also brings together the Profile, additional accounts, settings, and privacy tabs in a new side navigation menu on iOS, following a rollout of the feature on Android last year.
The company says these updates will roll out across twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, Twitter for Android, TweetDeck, and Twitter Lite over the coming days and weeks.
