The trend is your friend – this seems to be the slogan of the week. After various changes on Facebook during the last weeks and months, other big Social Networks like YouTube and Twitter redesigned their homepages recently. One starts – others follow and change the Social Network Class in many ways.
While Google+ just changed some little details and added a new Feature called „Find my Face“ – YouTube and Twitter redesigned their whole websites and added a new look and feel. An official video by YouTube explaining how to use the new features on the site has already received nearly 14,000 ‚dislikes‘ – eclipsing the number of ‚likes‘ by more than a factor of three.
On Thursday, Twitter unveiled a major redesign aimed at making Twitter faster, simpler, and more intuitive for casual users. Hashtags (#) and @ handles help Twitter’s power users jam lots of meaning into 140 characters, but they can scare off newbies. View the related links for more details and facts about the changes on Twitter – YouTube and Google+
Related Links:
- Find my Face – New on Google+ (german)
- Cosmic Panda – The YouTube Redesign (german)
- Lets Fly – The Twitter Redesign (english/german)