If you like this, you should look up Facebook Lite and Messenger Lite. My phone runs so much better after switching to those.
Introducing Twitter Lite
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#72When twitter stated it ran via SMS, that was twitter as about as lite as you can get data wise.
SO in effect they created a problem to promote a solution that is still short of what they had originally.
Now I understand they need to make money but I personally find the promoted tweets they offer do seem to miss the target and are in need of some refinements in who they promote towards. I find it rare to find a promoted tweet that is relevant and the amount of PPI promoted tweets which I have objected to and still do is a clear sign of needing better control. Be that from analytics or even allowing the user to select preferences in a way that suits them better and by that aid Twitter in presenting relevant adverts.
I would be interested in seeing how well advertisers get on with there promoted tweets as I see so many with comments that indicated those targeted are clearly not the market audience and as such, very negative. Indeed I do that to PPI adverts, as a cathartic release of how I loath them.
that said if I see a promoted tweet of interest or of merit, even if not what I would use then I will support it. Only the other day was one for passports for toys, I don't even have children, let alone a teddy bear these days. But loved the idea and fed back my encouragement and had a most delightful exchange with the owners. Have to encourage and support positive avenues in life.
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#73Lightweight is awesome. I feel that the absolute most important next improvement is in managing spam and fake accounts.
Things like Lite keep me from deleting my account. But with less spam, I'd probably use my account.
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#74We should take a cautious approach before analyzing the positive or negative aspects of Twitter Lite.
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#75I am so happy this is a website and not an app. No more walled gardens!
The term walled garden refers to service lock-in where membership and mode of access is tightly controlled. It's not about using an app.
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#76To get something similar on the desktop web, you can install the Refined Twitter Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/refined-twitter/nl...
Or just use mobile.twitter.com in a desktop browser.
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#77Using Lighthouse on Google Chrome shows that Twitter Lite has a score of 82/100.
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#78It looked like a better desktop client until I noticed that the search box does not display my saved searches.
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#79I hope they won't discard mobile.twitter.com it's lighter than lite and works without javascript
What exactly is the issue with allowing javascript. The entire internet runs on it. I keep seeing this comment on various other posts. Javascript is here to stay, and for you to get the best experience, or at all, you're going to need it.
Javascript does all sorts of nasty shit like opening the app store on my phone, animating pages, popping up "give me your email address!" notifications, tracking my web browsing, wasting my bandwidth, eating my CPU, dumb crap like making text fade in instead of just showing it to me. I find the web is a much more pleasant place if I can control what JS gets run.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't seem to use any kind of server-side rendering.
This comment is getting downvoted but if it's true, it's absolutely a good point. They are optimizing for what is inherently slower: loading JS in the client before anything can be seen or interacted with, rather than rendering HTML and forms so one doesn't have to wait for JS to compile and execute (and all the tracking bloat that comes with it).
It is not true, the slow part of web applications is loading over the network, server side rendering puts a dependency on the network and is therefore vastly slower.
With service workers and client side storage you can get to display at least a shell, sometimes the entire UI without touching the network. It is a lot faster