After Twitter rather unceremoniously rolled out a redesign Thursday morning, users have been roasting the UI’s new shape.
In Twitter’s browser view now, much of what used to have hard lines will seem updated with soft, rounded edges. Avatars? Circular. The field where you compose your tweet? Gentle rectangle. When you reply to a tweet now, you don’t do it by clicking a little arrow in the bottom left-hand corner anymore. It’s a speech bubble icon you’re clicking. Since the significance of the changes seems dubious-at-best, Twitter users have been poking fun at the update all afternoon with “Old Twitter vs New Twitter.”
old twitter vs new twitter pic.twitter.com/Ct4JC3UM5o
— ellie sunakawa (@elliesunakawa) June 15, 2017
old twitter VS new twitter pic.twitter.com/Rcxp2Z9KhO
— Song 🎶 (@songofalchemy) June 15, 2017
old twitter vs new twitter pic.twitter.com/JsL5KETL2w
— 𝔭𝔞𝔠. (@GagaIsMyCure) June 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/turbojunker/status/875386273556566017
https://twitter.com/JonFassnachtRE/status/875384447985750019
Old twitter vs new twitter pic.twitter.com/4bjISord1p
— Miles Lawrence (@hundrdmiles) June 15, 2017
Meanwhile, one writer had a different theory about the sudden change:
https://twitter.com/commiesona/status/875376583682523137
Of course, Twitter should have guessed that its redesign would have been made fun of by Twitter. It’s what they do best…