It seems that most of the 'new' features described in this post have existed since the last new Twitter (from a year ago). Some just slightly more recent than that.

I'm not sure that saying Twitter has 'grown more like Weibo' is accurate given that those features have been around since before the redesign.

(disclosure: I work for Twitter)

the thing I care more about is screen real estate usage on my phone, now everything is smaller and a vast percentage of space is wasted by that pointless border.

Well it seems Chinese startups might not be all copycats.