• Mashable, Thursday, August 11, 2011 10:06 AM

Amounting to a partial redesign, Twitter this week introduced two new "activity-centric" features, Mashable reports. The changes, "designed to help users more easily discover what's happening on Twitter in relation to them, are reflected in two new tabs on Twitter.com: '@[username]' and 'Activity.'"

The @username tab replaces the mentions tab, and is more of a personal notifications dashboard. The tab will now include tweets directed at users via @replies, highlight "favorited" tweets and retweeted tweets, and include new follower notifications. Meanwhile, the Activity tab's purpose is similar to activity notifications that appear in Facebook's News Feed. The tab showcases the same actions -- retweets, favorites and follows -- as the @username tab, but as they pertain to the individuals a user follows.

"It provides a rich new source of discovery by highlighting the latest Favorites, Retweets, and Follows from the people you follow on Twitter -- all in one place," the official Twitter Blog explained on Wednesday. "It's easier than ever to explore Twitter, connect with people, and discover what's happening around the world."

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