As per Twitter announcement of testing of new home page design on 30th March, 2010 which is based on wide view of a set of algorithmically selected features, has been live. Twitter’s new home page design incorporates more dynamic content on home page. It includes sample of who is here, what they are talking & discussing. Top tweets automatically appear on home page & refresh in every few seconds. Here is screenshot of twitter’s new home page:

Last year twitter updated its design to introduce search and trending topic more visible on its home page. They introduced features of search.twitter.com to the homepage.  New home page design is more attractive and informative its “See who’s here” banner shows 20 twitter’s folk & 3 famous tweets under top tweets.

So now from the homepage of twitter anyone can get updated top tweets which help user to find what’s discussing on twitter. Also “See who’s here” will help to find Friends and industry peers you know or Celebrities you watch or Businesses you frequent. In addition, I mostly like the link of “Twitter 101”, the Twitter Guide for Business. These will defiantly help user, however I think if they also add “Top Trending Topics” as on there search result page or user Home page that will again help new user to find what is top trending topic on twitter right now directly from home page.

Google launched buzz on 9th February 2010. It was seen massive interest on its launch day. According to new study by online ad network Chitika twitter has seen consistent interest, both across the Chitika network & Google launched buzz on 9th February 2010. It was seen massive interest on its launch day. According to new study by online ad network Chitika twitter has seen consistent interest, both across the Chitika network & Google’s Insights tool whereas buzz  in most cases elicited less than 10 searches per day.

Online ad network Chitika explains in its blog post:

“February 9th, 2010 – the day Buzz was launched – the search engines lit up with queries.  The Chitika network saw about 1,500 searches that day for the term “Google Buzz,” approximately 15 times the number of searches for ‘Twitter’.

However, those searches dropped off quickly – on February 10th, there were 580 searches; on the 11th, 147.  From the 12th on – only three days removed from Buzz’s much-hyped launch – searches for Google Buzz failed to break three digits, and in most cases elicited less than 10 searches per day.  During the same time, searches for Twitter remained fairly stable, averaging about 87 searches per day.”

Google’s insight for search tool spells the same story. In below given graph red color is taken for twitter & blue colour is taken for buzz.

I think it’s a positive sign for social-media king twitter. Twitter has changed its design to make it more attractive and informative. For more information about this survey click here.