Chen also said that Twitters video content partners, including its newly-minted Vine app and Googles (NASDAQ:GOOG) YouTube, will be supported in the new viewing option, meaning that users can watch videos on a reasonably sized screen separate from the rest of their feed.

The new service updates to its website show an eagerness to centralize all information received through Twitter within Twitter itself. And as the companys feud with Instagram showed, its willing to kick other services to the curb for the sake of strengthening its own internal ecosystem, no matter how popular those third party services may be. Streamlining content sharing puts the company in the same league as Tumblr and, someday, maybe even Facebook -- though to truly compete with the latter it might have to create a private messaging service that actually works. 

Twitter, meanwhile, is approaching the problem from the opposite end -- adding depth to its features to become a fully featured Twitter of its own. What all these internet companies is looking for is a sort of Goldilocks balance between the services they actually offer and the means by which those services are delivered. At the end of the day, it will be a race towards the middle.

For a company with a hotly debated IPO expected sometime in the not-too-distant future, strenghtening its social networks ecosystem can only be a good thing. Earlier Wednesday,new york escort fellow Internet startup Dropbox introduced an update to its file sharing service that would simplify its photo-sharing and image-viewing features. Much like Tumblrs dashboard update last week, the pared-down Dropbox weds the simplicity of short-form content sharing that Twitter perfected with a deeper and more robust user experience than Twitter currently offers. TechCrunch even said that the updated Tumblr looks more like a fully featured Twitter than [a] blogging platform.

Its been a big month for Twitter. Over the last few weeks, company announced that it is expanding its corporate presence in Brazil, unveiled a brand new video sharing platform called Vine, and acquired a new company to help build its mobile presence. And now on Wednesday, the company announced in a blog post that it is introducing a number of changes to its website intece to cilitate user access to photo and video content.

These changes may seem like minor adjustments, Web but the timing for Twitter is key. Coming after a barrage of major updates to both the company and its core service, a new-and-improved user intece is the first step towards rebranding the entire social network. Though micro-blogging is what got Twitter to where it is today, the company is clearly interested in Twitter Updates Web Intece To Support Large Image Viewing Adding Videos to Galleriesexpanding beyond 140 characters.

According to Twitter software engineer David Chen, the new updates allow photos to be viewed from a standalone profile page or in a larger pane, similar to the way that users now view images on Facebook (NASDAQ:FB). Without having to navigate to another website, Twitters new feature streamlines the user experience and cuts down on its legendary loading times that have the subject of countless user complaints.