Twitter has redesigned its iOS app for iPhone and to bring back something you’ll ‘know and love’
The social network is 'refreshing' its app to make it 'feel lighter, faster, and easier to use'
TWITTER has started rolling out an update to its iOS app designed to make it "feel lighter, faster, and easier to use".
The new version of the app will reintroduce a blast from the past: the "thought bubble" icon.
This was used to reply to other people's tweets but was replaced by a rather confusing arrow.
In a blog post that has just gone live, Grace Kim, Twitter VP of user research and design, wrote: "More intuitive icons make it easier to engage with tweets, especially if you’re coming to Twitter for the first time.
"For example, people thought the reply icon, an arrow, meant delete or go back to a previous page.
"We switched to a speech bubble, a symbol most know and love."
Tweets will also update in real time to show you how many people have liked or retweeted it.
The app interface has also been refined to collect options such as profile, additional accounts, settings, and privacy in one place.
Links will also open in a Safari (the default iPhone web browser) viewer within the Twitter app.
This is a small change which should save a bit of time because it means you won't have to sign into the website you're already using in Safari.
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If you're a really observant iPhone owner, you may notice slightly different fonts.
Kim added: "We’ve refined our typography to make it more consistent, and added bolder headlines to make it easier to focus on what’s happening.
"Also, rounded profile photos make it clearer to see what’s being said and who’s saying it."
Twitter recently ditched the egg icon which has allowed cowardly trolls to launch anonymous campaigns of abuse.
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