Micro-blogging service Twitter has unveiled a new frontpage featuring a prominent search box in a bid to attract new users.

Co-founder of Twitter Biz Stone said in a blog post that new frontpage is to demonstrate “the power of Twitter as a discovery engine for what is happening right now.”

The all new search box will allow non registered users to search for something and see the latest real-time messages, known as “tweets,” about the subject of the keywords entered.

Stone said this would hopefully inspire people to then sign up for Twitter, which allows users to broadcast messages of 140 characters or less to other members.

The redesign does not affect the Twitter homepage seen by current users of the service, only the introductory page at Twitter.com seen by Internet users who have not yet signed up for the service.