I read where Dick Costolo (Twitter’s COO) spoke about the changes happening to Twitter over the next couple of weeks. If you haven’t heard already…. Twitter is rolling out a new layout to the website with increased functionality and more user support.

Screen shot of New Twitter Courtesy of TechCrunch

I find it unbelievable but according to Dick over 70% of Twitter users still use the website to send, receive, and interact with tweets and other users. I understand why the stat would be touted around the web.   It is hard for me to comprehend actually using Twitter.com. since I have been an avid application user (Tweetdeck, and Hootsuite) for the past two years and it is highly unlikely I will move over to Twitter.com.  However, the functionality is pretty sweet.

In the recent blog Ben Parr posted on Mashable.com, The Facebookification of Twitter he felt Facebook and LinkedIn were Twitter’s muse?

LinkedIn is powerful because it shows you the depth of your network and Facebook brings you a multitude of functionality to share information, video, pictures, and… basically… your life. Twitter is taking the “follower” to an entirely new level by showing the user a break down of their network… three layers deep.

I agree Twitter is becoming a one stop destination for content but I am not sure Twitter can actually become a Facebook competitor.