If you’re a heavy Twitter user, you probably don’t see the homepage much…no, not your timeline, the Twitter.com that shows up when you’re logged out. If other people didn’t talk about it, I probably wouldn’t notice a change. But there have been many over the years.
Its current iteration, making its worldwide debut this week, reminds me of YouTube’s homepage: there’s a lot fighting for your attention. Plenty of things to click, infinite points of entry, a login box and of course an opportunity to sign up. I’ll share more thoughts on that later.
Have a look at Twitter’s attempts to convert visitors to users over the years.
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Drew Olanoff
Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old. Drew was a senior writer at TechCrunch. Most recently, Drew was the VP of Communications for venture equity fund Scaleworks.
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