I can't help but have mixed thoughts about the new Twitter homepage/direction.

I agree that they need to open it up and try to entice a wider audience, and the new approach does fit with the way they brand themselves as a consumption platform and NOT a social network. But, let's face it, most of us think of Twitter AS a social network - it is how we all started using it - so the move from communications tool to stalking aid is a shift we can't comprehend.

The homepage now invites us to follow our interests but if we all start following and not talking Twitter is in danger of turning in to one big tabloid newspaper with the celebrities as the journalists.

I am very much in favour of improving the means of consumption of shared information but feel that they must be very careful about how it is done.