Web Science and Digital Libraries Research Group

  Figure 1: Mementos of Jack's Twitter account page (2010, 2016, 2018), archived at different points along the Twitter UI timeline and the live version from 2025. In ‘ Exploring the Different Generations of Twitter/X's Tweet UI ,’ we discussed changes to the UI for individual tweets  through the years. Here, we discuss the changes to the UI of Twitter's (X’s) account pages since 2006. Figure 1 shows an animation of archived versions or mementos of Jack Dorsey’s (co-founder of Twitter) Twitter account page (twitter.com/jack) and a live version from 2025. Similar to the issue of tweet UIs, models trained on images of the latest Twitter account page UI may fail to identify elements in images present in an earlier UI. This is important to study because an account page would typically have more elements than an individual tweet UI. As a result, it might be even more challenging for models to generalize output for Twitter account page UIs if different UI generations are not cons...