Twitter always have had it’s sign of identity on the simplicity of 140 characters. A powerful open API let flourish a plethora of services to complement the platform. There are URLs shorteners, services for sharing pictures, third-party applications to access the service from the desktop, the iPhone…
But the open platform is becoming less a platform and more an integrated service. These services that grew around are now seeing how Twitter is incorporating these missing options. This transition will achieve it’s biggest milestone with the roll out of the new re-design. Now you’ll be able to embed videos from YouTube or pictures from Flickr. As Twitter says on their blog, “life doesn’t always fit into 140 characters or less“.
The new re-designed Twitter will be completely rolled out on the next few weeks. Let’s see how the users embrace it.
Official Twitter Blog: http://blog.twitter.com/2010/09/better-twitter.html