Massive Redesign Brings Progressive Web App Support to Twitter Along With New UI

Twitter is testing a major redesign of its desktop site, calculation a number of new features that were so far available on the visitor's mobile website as well as on its mobile apps. The new features include a night mode, a data-saving mode, bookmarks, and more.

A Twitter spokesperson reportedly told Business concern Insider that it'southward a 'limited test for now', but didn't give any definitive time-frame for it to exist rolled out to a wider audience.

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We are testing out a new Twitter for web, which a small number of people volition come across today. Honey it? Missing something? Reply and tell us. Don't have the new experience? Stay tuned. moving-picture show.twitter.com/w4TiRrVFHU

— Twitter (@Twitter) September 6, 2018

According to information shared by the visitor, the Night Mode and Data Saver mode can exist activated through a toggle on the contour page, while the Trending Now menu and the Profile section take been relocated to the other side of the page (nether the Who to Follow suggestions) for a cleaner ii-column look.

Massive Redesign Brings Progressive Web App Support to Twitter Along With New UI — Image Courtesy: Business organisation Insider

Twitter has also redesigned the Compose Tweet popup window, removing the compose box in favor of an open up space, also equally by relocating the Tweet button to the acme. What'south more, in that location are new embed options for tweets, such as the power to adjust the color of hyperlinked text, and more.

As pointed out by Business concern Insider, the new site is very likely a Progressive Spider web App (PWA), which is an emerging standard.

PWAs can support offline functioning in select cases, they integrate with platform features such equally notifications, and tin can even exist pinned to app launchers, abode screens or the Windows Taskbar, which allows users to treat them as 'existent' applications rather than basic web pages.

The new features are not even so available to any one at our office, so it will be interesting to encounter how long it will take for Twitter to aggrandize its test and roll it out to a larger user-base of operations.