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\"tweeter\"Since Twitter<\/a> debuted a few years ago, the site has been considered a social destination — a cross between blogging and social networking dubbed microblogging where users can share 140-character or less snippets with links to more content through third-party, off-site applications.\u00a0 This week, the Twitter team announced that the time has come for the Twitter brand to be repositioned as a news site rather than a social site and with that comes a redesign of the Twitter site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reason for a Twitter brand repositioning is cited as a change in usage habits.\u00a0 No longer are people tweeting simply to converse with other users.\u00a0 Today, people tweet breaking news as they witness it.\u00a0 Examples include an eyewitness who tweeted the crash of an airplane in New York’s Hudson River, news from people in Iran during the protests following a controversial election, and even tweets from people trapped with few other communication options after earthquakes destroyed areas of Haiti.<\/p>\n

Both journalists and individuals turn to Twitter as a place to share news and consume news, and it’s that news consumption that Twitter sees as leading the next generation of the site.\u00a0 The new redesign is intended to keep people on the site longer, whether or not they are actively tweeting.\u00a0 If people spend more time on the site, advertisers will be more inclined to invest and those investments will be larger.<\/p>\n

It makes sense that the Twitter redesign is being rolled out with a two-pane design — one where tweets are visible and another where additional related content will be displayed.\u00a0 According to an article from BBC News<\/a>, Twitter reports having closed deals with, “16 photo and video sites including YouTube and Flicker to have their visual content embedded on the site.”\u00a0 In other words, contextually relevant content will appear alongside the tweets that people are already interested in.\u00a0 It stands to reason that if the additional content is interesting to both Twitter use<\/em>rs and Twitter consume<\/em>rs, those people will stick around and take a closer look at that content.<\/p>\n

What do you think?\u00a0 Has the Twitter brand evolved organically into a news source or is it still a social site that happens to offer an easy way for news to spread quickly?\u00a0 Will the Twitter team’s efforts at repositioning the site as a news destination rather than a social destination work?\u00a0 Leave a comment and share your thoughts on this interesting branding story that truly is playing out in real-time right before our eyes.<\/p>\n

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