{"id":2958,"date":"2014-06-11T18:44:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/needtoknow\/?p=623"},"modified":"2014-06-11T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T18:44:27","slug":"twitter-redesigns-profiles-adds-engagement-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/2014\/06\/11\/twitter-redesigns-profiles-adds-engagement-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Redesigns Profiles, Adds Engagement Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has rolled out a new design for users&#8217; profile pages. The important changes are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Graphics are emphasized, with much larger header images<\/li>\n<li>Tweets that are getting more &#8220;engagement&#8221; are in a larger font. The algorithm used to measure a tweet&#8217;s engagement is not revealed by Twitter. Engagement appears to be based on the number of retweets, mentions, favorites, and clicks. Apparently large-font tweets only happen on desktop Twitter, not on mobile.<\/li>\n<li>You can choose a tweet that you want to emphasize, to be &#8220;pinned&#8221; to the top of your profile.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More information from Twitter on the new profile:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2014\/coming-soon-a-whole-new-you-in-your-twitter-profile\">Coming soon: a whole new you, in your Twitter profile<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To see further commentary, search for appropriate terms in Google and Twitter. For instance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=twitter+new+profile\">twitter new profile<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=twitter%20new%20profile\">twitter new profile<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To keep up with what\u2019s happening at Univ Iowa and with Twitter, follow <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HardinLib\">@HardinLib<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricRumsey\">@EricRumsey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has rolled out a new design for users&rsquo; profile pages. The important changes are: Graphics are emphasized, with much larger header images Tweets that are getting more &ldquo;engagement&rdquo; are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/combo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}