Twitter has updated its profile pages with Facebook-style header photos, as the micro-blogging firm looks to broaden its multi-platform functions, across the web, mobiles and tablets.
In a blog post, Twitter said the changes gave users the opportunity to ‘make their presence on Twitter more meaningful’.
The most noticeable difference in the new look profiles is the addition of header photos. These can be uploaded on twitter.com or via mobile apps on iPad, iPhone, iPod and Android in the Design section of profile settings.
Appearing above the Twitter feed, it incorporates bio information and sits in the background of users’ profile pictures (cue inventive use of the two in conjunction).
Twitter said: ‘While the header photo keeps your profile simple and consistent on iPhone, iPad and Android, you will also still have an additional photo – a background photo – on twitter.com. Upload a background image to complement your header and profile photos.’
The new profiles also place more emphasis on pictures, with photo streams that can be swiped through now appearing below most recent tweets on apps.
The addition of header photos follows a very similar move by rival social network Facebook, who over the past year has been rolling out landscape-orientated ‘cover photos’ that sit atop users’ profiles.
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