Twitter listens, and improves top nav

Twitter has made some small but usable updates to the top nav on a profile page.  The addition of the 'Trends' drop-down, which was previously buried through search (which was also buried at the footer) creates a simpler mechanism to track "what's hot" and what's being discussed in real time.

They've also done a few other minor tweaks, such as adding profile and settings links below the username.  I like it.  It's telling me that these are the links to MY profile and settings for MY account.  It makes sense.  With the recent updates to Facebook, and the many comparisons being made, it's good to see that the folks at Twitter are paying attention.  

The best change is the search box.  No longer a need to go to search.twitter.com to enter a search.  I think this will drastically improve usability. Still wondering what the monetization strategy will be...