Shiny new features
A worm was not a sought-after addition, but Twitter has added two desirable new features, according to Tech Crunch.
Twitter's new look site will reportedly include a reply-to-all function plus auto-complete of usernames, (which are usually available on third party Twitter sites already.)
However Twitter developer Dustin Diaz warned reply-to-all may irk some users as there is no separate option to reply only to the author of the tweet.
Referring to he auto-complete of user names, he also reportedly said: "Now, when you wish to tweet someone, you can simply start with the ‘@' sign and type the first letters of his or her name, after which a drop-down menu with relevant usernames will appear."
The micro blogging site also told The Daily Telegraph it is working on a graph to show users' interests to help advertisers send more targeted tweets via the service's advertising format.
"Moving forward, [with promoted products] we are looking at introducing a targeting mechanism [which is based on an interest graph] ... We can build out a person's interests based on who they are following," product manager Shiva Rajaraman told the newspaper.
Apparently who people follow gives a strong indication of their interests, especially as one in five tweeple follow a commercial entity.
"We are experimenting how we can assemble those pieces of information together and show people's interests," he reportedly said.
