All Atwitter Over Twitter's New Face

As all the world knows by now,Twitter has changed the interface of its log-in page.

The change isn't a complete overhaul, but there are changes. Twitter has still retained that cutesy-wide-eyed "twitterbird" as an emblem and the funky '70s style bubble lettering font in its name. The log-in page doesn't appear as naked as before, and while it certainly is far from cluttered, it now has a Search field right on the log-in page. You can also quickly see the most popular topics by week, day or minute.

The Twitter community seems to be reacting favorably to the design change with only a few minor quibbles. Many are praising the ability to search topics before even logging in, while others are likening the design to Facebook. Here are some of our favorite re-tweets on the subject (user names are omitted)

-- twitter, i don't like how your new homepage does not default to the username field. please fix that.

-- Twitter is following facebook in its homepage layout. I can dig it.

-- Holy cow - twitter put the search bar on the homepage? WILD

-- twitter got a new homepage and it's my birthday

-- when is the homepage update going to be pushed across the site? I like the changes so far.

-- Why did they change Twitter's homepage? Yucky!

-- What new twitter homepage? Looks exactly the same to me!

Note to the last Twitterer: if you are using some third-party app that has you automatically sign in to Twitter, you won't see the new log-in page.