Introducing Twitter Lite

This is going to sound negative, even though I'm glad this is here:

How did we arrive at a time where it is news-worthy to launch a non-bloated service client?

Or to phrase it differently: What is the claimed consumer gain of a bloated client?

More like this please. It feels like going back in time when I first tried a 100Mbps connection in the late 90s and all the web content was made to accomodate DSL and modems.

Got excited, clicked on it, and then realised I'd been using it for a while anyway.

Wish I hadn't given away my 2007 twitter account for free.

I love this. I was always frustrated by the ever-growing-in-size Twitter app. Which is around 105 Megabytes now (aka ~73 1.44 floppies). So I welcome this.

Well they can release something good after all. Look at the main Web UI. I don't know what they are thinking at Twitter. Its the most unintuitive UX I've ever seen.

E.g. :

Click on the Image -> Only the Image gets larger

Click on the frame around the image -> See the comments and Image is larger.

I support your idea that software is often bloated.

However, as usual you're doing the mistake of somehow thinking that you are a customer of Twitter's. Of course you're not, since you're not paying to use the service.

That turns things around so that you're the usual ad target product, meaning the app might swell to contain more candy to tease you into clicking, and so on.

Uh, and just to be clear I'm not meaning "you" in a very personal sense, this applies to me too when I use Twitter, of course. :)