Twitter now asks ‘What’s happening?’

Twitter now asks ‘What’s happening?’

Twitter has made a small change on their service which aims to make it easier for new people to understand what it’s all about.

The service usually asked this question near the message window: ‘What are you doing?’.

The question has been changed to more generalized phrase: ‘What’s happening?’.

Twitter had this to say on this change:

The fundamentally open model of Twitter created a new kind of information network and it has long outgrown the concept of personal status updates. Twitter helps you share and discover what’s happening now among all the things, people, and events you care about. “What are you doing?” isn’t the right question anymore—starting today, we’ve shortened it by two characters. Twitter now asks, “What’s happening?”