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Lately I have been hooked on twitter- a service for micro blogging, and there is a lot of buzz about it nowadays.
The twitter personal page looks like a good example for simplicity, and the main content section is just that.

A Twitter profile has a very simple (first impression) interface:
There is the noticeable Logo, a big question "what are you doing?" and a big text box.
Below you see "twitts" of people I am following. Delicate tabs show the user the ways of interaction.

However, The rest of the page is not understandable at first - what are device updates? what are followers? what are following? what is the difference between them (facebook and such social networks require interaction to be two way).

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Recently I got a look at this manual from apple - has a lot of good guidelines from the company that is known for its user experience.

Enjoy

A Name is an identity one can relate to, respond to, feel empathy to, and have a dialog with.
Web sites have been using their users names in numerous ways to increase their activity’s and emotional relation to their service.
Some of those ways:

• create an emotional connection and empathy.
• Increase user activity and involvement in activities.
• Ownership of information by a specific user within the service.
• Dialog between users.
• CRM - Get the user back to the service using email messages.

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