Facebook broke the ice with several revolutionizing implements to the social networking experience, such as the News Feed, so you won't necessarily be seeing anything radically different in comparison. Same feature, different name, different service.

That being said, Twitter's changes are likely to make the average individual's use easier. The bad news? The improvements will probably be just as addictive and time-wasting as its major competitor.

Now, there are small things, like rechristenings (@Mention is called “Connect,” for example) and a visual redesign of the tabs, which you can preview. As we've seen in recent months, it keeps track of any interaction you've had with other users, who's retweeting or marking your posts as a “favorite.” These changes are already available on Twitter's mobile app for Android and iPhone, and will be added to Twitter.com in coming weeks.

Probably the biggest changes the site has revealed are on its home page and on the “Discover” link.

On the home link, photos and videos are directly embedded into the tweets, so you can preview instead of wondering what you're really clicking on for those tinyurl.com links. Users will be able to see what has been done with posts by people they follow, in similar fashion to Facebook's sharing history in the News Feed.

“Discover” is the new addiction, I wager. You can choose to share your location in order to have a customized experience. “Discover” will give you “results reflecting your interests—based on your current location, what you follow and what's happening in the world.” According to Twitter, as you use it more “Discover gets even better at serving up more content for you.” So, for those who dislike being tracked, you might hate this feature.

My favorite addition is Stories. In the past, we've just seen the hashtag topics with no explanation of why people are tweeting about it. Now Twitter gives users a small summary of the trending topics. Now users don't have to leave Twitter to browse news articles, explanatory links are there already.

Best of all, Twitter is making the user experience the same across the board: from laptop to mobile phone, users will see the same things, and pages will not look or be used differently. If you want an updated web version now, you can download the TweetDeck application.

I do like the layout much better than TweetDeck or Peep apps on my mobile phone. There are superior menu options that you can see on the screen without having to press keys on the phone to access them. In this way, it's viewed much more as a webpage than an app.

The one thing I notice missing is a clean way to merge Tweets and Facebook statuses. I think using the hashtag “#fb” to get a Tweet to post on your Facebook account is a little tacky. I'd say that's something TweetDeck has on the Twitter app.

The changes may produce mixed reactions, but I'm in favor. How about you?