60 Second Social 26/06/17

June 26, 2017

With more than 300 million monthly active users, this week Twitter has launched its biggest redesign in years, including round profile photos, live engagement updates, and speech bubbles instead of arrows. Additionally, it’s now much easier to operate on multiple platforms. Whilst we’re loving the bolder headlines and simple style, the update has been criticised for leaving out that one feature that we’ve always wanted, the ability to edit our tweets!

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