Twitter revealed a site revamp that changes the interface, introduces new features and promises to be "faster, easier and richer."
Two-pane interface.
Twitter is getting rid of its single-panel interface of streaming tweets and updating it with two panes, making the site more interactive and user-friendly.
The left side will look familiar—this is where your tweet stream will appear as well as your actions (@Mentions, retweets, lists, etc.). The left side of your stream will display a visibly larger reorganization of information, such as your followers, who you're following, favorite tweets, lists, trends and suggestions of who to follow.
The new interface is clean and well organized. Lists and trends are easier to view (requiring less scrolling) than with the old Twitter.
2. Embedded media.
If you clicked on a TwitPic link in the old Twitter, the link would send you to the external site. Clicking on a TwitPic link in the new Twitter, however, will display the photo on the right half of the page—without leaving Twitter.com. You'll also see more information such as other tweets that have linked to that same image.
Videos, too, will be embedded. If you click on a tweet containing a link to a YouTube video, the video will pay right on Twitter.com instead of redirecting you to YouTube. This eliminates the hassle of closing multiple browser tabs once you're done viewing.
During the announcement, Twitter noted that it has "done deals with 16 media providers," some of which include YouTube, TwitPic, Etsy, Flickr and Ustream, but didn't address specifics of the deals.
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