SAN FRANCISCO, June 15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, the best and fastest place to see what's happening, today announced a new design that emphasizes simplicity, making it lighter, faster, and easier to use. Changes include bolder headlines, more intuitive icons to make it easier to engage with Tweets, and live updates to reply, Retweet and like counts so people can watch conversations unfold in real time. The design also brings together the Profile, additional accounts, settings, and privacy tabs in a new side navigation menu on iOS, following a successful rollout of the feature on Android last year.

These updates will roll out across twitter.com, Twitter for iOS, Twitter for Android, TweetDeck, and Twitter Lite over the coming days and weeks. For more information, read the Twitter Blog.

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