Profile pages weren't ignored in the
large-scale redesign Twitter unveiled Thursday . In fact, the company is
now trumpeting itself as a better option than Facebook or Google+ when it comes
to showing the world who you are through an online profile.
“This is the best place to represent yourself
on the Internet,” Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey said of Twitter's individual
profile pages during the company's press event in San Francisco Thursday
morning.
He also said Twitter, which from the start
could be used on any mobile device with SMS capabilities, is more readily
accessible on a global basis than many other more fully featured social
networking sites. “Twitter is approachable, and not just on the web. It works
with the weakest signals and the cheapest devices,” Dorsey said. “People can use
Twitter on the cheapest, $20 cellphone in Baghdad, Iraq. There's no other
service that enables them to do that.”