Twitter, which has been undergoing a series of changes recently, has added one more to the list.
Through an announcement on the Twitter Community forum, the company said it will be releasing redesigned versions of the Tweet and Follow buttons in October.
The Tweet and Follow buttons can be seen not only on Twitter itself but also embedded on other websites. As such, the impending change will be widely seen as the looks of the buttons gain a visual update for the first time since 2011.
The new Tweet button will see the light gray background replaced by the signature blue used by Twitter. The black color of the text will be replaced by white, and the blue Twitter bird logo will also be turned to white.
The new Tweet and Follow buttons will not just undergo cosmetic adjustments, as they will also bring about certain technical changes that developers should keep in mind if they would be using them.
According to Niall Kennedy, a partner engineer for the Twitter Platform, the Tweet button will be simplified to remove the share counter that is displayed beside the button. The new display will be removing the count and counturl display parameters, and will be rendered in the same dimensions in terms of pixels as the Tweet button without the share count.
Recent upgrades to Twitter include the introduction of buy buttons, in partnership with payments startup company Stripe, to allow anyone to sell things through tweets. The feature was made possible through the launch of Relay, which are new tools by Stripe.
With the Stripe partnership, Twitter is looking to ease its way into the e-commerce industry, leading to revenues for the social network.
As Twitter has been upgrading and developing its product, not everything has been smooth sailing for the company. Earlier this month, a lawsuit was filed against the social network for allegedly eavesdropping on direct messages that were being sent by users.
An example of such an incident occurring is the fact that Twitter scans direct messages for any URLs and then replaces them with custom hyperlinks. According to the lawsuit, this is done so that Twitter becomes the traffic source, leading to higher advertising rates.
