Twitter Trying To Attract New Users
Site Becoming More Welcoming To First-Timers
Twitter is forever trying to compete with Facebook, the latter with 1.23 billion monthly active users whereas Twitter currently 'only' has 271 million. In an attempt to try and attract even more, Twitter has recently tweaked a few things.A few months ago, all Twitter users discovered that their profiles had changed and looked a bit familiar. Very familiar even. Twitter's new profile looked a lot like a Facebook profile page. Twitter added a huge banner at the top of your profile page that looked a lot like Facebook's cover photo, and it worked in the same way: the Twitter user could choose any photo to put there in addition to their profile picture. This however, was not enough to attract more users, and so Twitter had to resort to other means.
What has changed?
You still have to go through the lengthy process of entering your name, password and choosing a user name. If you cannot think of a user name, Twitter suggest a few that have not yet been chosen. Once you've done all that and set up an account, Twitter made changes so that you can start tweeting straight away. A list of Twitter account suggestions come up, people Twitter thinks you may know as well as celebrity accounts that Twitter thinks you might like. For people who are at first very confused about Twitter this may be an enormous help with getting them started, as the service also has a few examples you can use for your very first tweet.
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