Twitter Redesigns Homepage Yet Again

From PC World: As any Twitter enthusiast knows, the hardest part of turning new people onto the service is explaining why they'd want to use it in the first place.

Five years later, Twitter's still trying to nail that explanation itself. Yet another homepage redesign, reportedly rolling out to some users, takes another stab at making Twitter interesting from the outside. This is the third major redesign in less than two years.

The current homepage contains a handful of entities to follow, a running list of top Tweets, a strip of trending topics and a search box. There's also a video explaining how people use Twitter. In other words, it's kind of cluttered. The redesign is much simpler, presenting a long strip of important Twitter users, a search box and one direction: "Follow your interests."

This isn't the only thing Twitter is doing to help out newbies. On Monday, Twitter expanded the "people" section of its search function to include users by topic, not just names and usernames. That'll make it easier for new users to figure out who to follow.

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