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Twitter aims to be friendlier with new home page

Posted by Cory Bergman on April 5, 2011

Another update: And… they’re back. The new home page remains.

Update: Hmmm. And now Twitter has reverted back to its old design altogether. Here’s a message from @support: “We’re temporarily disabling #NewTwitter. Our engineers are working on re-enabling it. We’ll send an update once the issue is resolved.”

Previously: Here’s the old Twitter home page:

And here’s the new, logged-out home page, rolling out today:

Clean and simple, without the trending topics or the top tweets. Last week, returning Twitter founder Jack Dorsey said his goal is to make the site more approachable. “We have a lot of mainstream awareness, but mainstream relevancy is still a challenge,” he said.

Earlier this week, Twitter added the ability to find suggestions on who to follow based on subject matter.