14 DAY TRIAL // Twitter has been testing out its new profile pages for a few weeks now and the company has finally agreed that it’s high time to just roll the feature out to all users.
This means that starting today, all Twitter users can make the change to the new profiles if they so desire. The entire process is extremely simple and the platform will guide you through all the steps.
There are a few big changes that come along with these new profiles. On one hand, the profile photo is bigger (400 x 400 px), while the cover picture now expands on the entire upper area. Twitter advises users to use a picture that has a resolution of 1500 x 500 pixels.
Profile information, such as the biography appears on the left side along with the picture, making the entire interface look like Facebook.
Then, you can go through a number of areas on Twitter straight from underneath the cover photo. You can see how many tweets you’ve written, how many photos and videos you’ve added to the platform, as well as how many people you follow and how many have followed you back.
You can also access the tweets you’ve favorited and the lists you’ve put together from the same interface.
The platform now also lets you choose which timeline to view when checking out other profiles. For instance, you’ll be able to view “Tweets,” “Tweets with photos/videos” or “Tweets and replies.” This should make it incredibly easy to scour the platform for that one message you remember seeing earlier.
Twitter now lets you pin whichever tweet you want to the upper area of the page, which will appear as the top message until you change it. You can do this by clicking on the three dots in the lower area of a tweet, where you can usually go to share or embed the message.
You can unpin a message at any time and pick another one or simply choose a new one and it will replace the previous one automatically. Everyone’s best tweets are also featured automatically in a larger font, which makes them stand out.
You can, of course, choose to update your profile at a later time, in which case you can pass over the option by denying Twitter’s prompt.
Chances are that you will only get the opportunity to decline for a limited period before Twitter just makes the new profile the default option.