The Twitter Connect Tab Is Now Called Notifications

After quite a severe outage during a “planned deploy” yesterday which left the website unavailable for over an hour, Twitter has made a subtle change to the interface on Twitter.com and it official Twitter apps – the Connect tab has been renamed Notifications.

Here’s how it looks:

It’s a smart move. To me, Connect never really computed particularly well as it implied that an action was about to take place, and Notifications makes a lot more sense.