Twitter Testing Major Profile Redesign

Twitter is checking a major profile redesign that's very reminiscent of Facebook and Google+.

Mashable assistant features editor Matt Petronzio spotted on Tuesday a gigantic update to his Twitter profile page, with the major picture and bio levelled to the left and significantly more genuine land parcel dedicated to the header photo.

The revamped tweet stream is furthermore a exodus from its signature gaze. There is a greater aim on photographs and content cards. It moves away from a firmly upright timeline too.

It's widespread for Twitter to calmly check new characteristics and conceive updates before fine-tuning or revolving it out to a larger user base. trials normally proceed out to a small, random pool of users.

Under the header photo in the test is the count for tweets, photos/videos (a new class called out on the profile), who you are following, followers, favorites and registers. bang the likeness below to enlarge.

Other profile pages viewed from an account with the new design are automatically made to look like this too. This means that even if your Twitter page isn't a part of the test, you can see what yours will gaze like.

The recommended header photo size in the check type is 1500 x 500 pixels, up from 1252 x 626 in the current design, so users with the new design will want to switch their picture so it doesn't look stretched.

The report arrives days after Twitter rolled out its latest design to all users, after weeks of behind the scenes testing.

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