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Twitter's follower and following pages get a big redesign
Several users have correctly pointed out that the new design makes Twitter look a lot more like an iPhone-optimized site. It's definitely an improvement in many ways, but there's one small quirk I have to take issue with: in the old layout, the appearance of the "direct message" link next to a username gave a quick visual indication of whether that user was following you. You can still figure this out by clicking the drop-down menu, but it's definitely not as efficient as before. On the other hand, the new design does a great job of showing who you're following when you browse another user's list.
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Robert said 1:17PM on 7-02-2009
You wanna see the latest Twitter hack??? For a long time, the "standard" link to your page that shows the tweets you're following was "www.twitter.com/following" Well, low and behold, someone registered the username "following" so now that url takes you to their "private" profile page!! All those links are now bad... go figure!
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Robert said 1:21PM on 7-02-2009
That got fixed, and now clicking "view all" under the icons of "following" now takes you to "www.twitter.com/friends" with the same bad result... duh
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