From a marketing standpoint, I think twitter has done a good job in moving away from the basic position of being a news feed with their more expanded platform. In addition, the standard in ‘customized pages’ that myspace introduced years ago and folks like twitter followed have given way to the cold monolithic hospital colors of facebook. Actually, in truth, twitter is at a half way point of being more like the FireFox browser offering customized colors and backgrounds… but it is still a big reduction. You can see by the template I have for my site and the ‘reality’ behind it… not a lot comes across.
Not that I am complaining too much because I may actually be coming to the site more than the indirect ‘tweets from the phone’ approach. There are a few ‘tweeks’ I’d do… like a ‘transparent’ right sidebar ( at least 50%)… but that’s just me. I hope Karen has figured this out… but with her dissertation, teaching classes, conferences… I might have to wait a couple of days! 😉
However, it is a big improvement.
