By a significant margin, New Twitter seems to have captured the hearts, minds, eyeballs and twitching little fingers of its microblogging-obsessed users, according to a poll we conducted last week to see how our readers like the New Twitter.
It's going to Disneyland.
What the new web interface lacks -- RSS buttons, links to (or even mentions of) third-party apps used to access the service, and a bit more -- seems to pale in comparison to the new, shiny, useful features the app has added and its slick design, which is based on the Golden Ratio. Readers have told us they like the interface for threaded conversations, click-to-refresh notifications, keyboard shortcuts and more.
In fact, many of us think that Twitter.com is beginning to catch up with the once-superior design of some of the more advanced Twitter clients, such as TweetDeck and Seesmic.
A full 62% of our readers expressed "like it" or "love it" positive sentiments about the features of New Twitter. Just 28% of our readers said they had negative first impressions of the new Twitter.com.
Here's a full breakdown of votes:
The New Twitter is still rolling out to users; this fact constitutes one of the biggest complaints about the product. Twitter stated at the product's launch that it would take several weeks to get New Twitter out to all its users, and two weeks into the launch, many are still anxiously awaiting the new interface. Power user Chris Pirillo complains he's beginning to think that New Twitter is naught but a cruel joke. All we can say to you who still wait is hang in there.
Some backlash is to be expected for any major design or UI/UX change to a social service. Digg, for example, launched their version four to an almost unprecedented expression of disapproval from its core users. Facebook, on the other hand, tends to test minor feature changes and make incremental adjustments on a rolling basis, facing varying but generally lesser degrees of scrutiny from media and its own users.