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Just last month, Wired controversially claimed that the web is going the way of the dodo -- users are increasingly abandoning the web browser and instead accessing their favorite web services via applications on smartphones, the logic goes.
One of the companies shaping this trend was Twitter, the information network that became accessible through countless third party applications on mobile devices and the desktop.
This week, however, Twitter announced a major redesign of its website. The intent: To make Twitter.com a compelling web destination. Whatever happened to the death of the web at the hands of mobile applications?
That's the topic of my CNN column this week.