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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by madeofpalk »

Zenst wrote: post #72

When 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 promot…

An HTML interface is worse than SMS?

Please, lets not pretend Twitter is worse with a richer interface with amazing features such as links and images.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by AndrewStephens »

janvdberg wrote: post #16

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.

I don't understand why some mobile app are so large.

If Twitter can write a webpage that provides the functionality in only 1Mb then what is in the mobile app?

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by mplis7 »

bonoetmalo wrote: post #71

If you like this, you should look up Facebook Lite and Messenger Lite. My phone runs so much better after switching to those.

"This item isn't available in your country."

That's disappointing. I should be able to choose Facebook Lite if I feel like it'd be a better experience for me.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by harrygeez »

fsiefken wrote: post #10

This is much better then the bloated main UI. But I'd wish an option for an even lighter HN like interface. It still doesn't look to good in a text browser like elinks. One or 2 lines per tweet max would be ideal. That and a rss/atom feed that can be fed into the matrix network and clients. Originally it was a listing of 140c messages, ideal to quickly view the status of your friends to enhance social proprioception.…

They've got bills to pay. Something's gotta give. Are you willing to pay to use Twitter?

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by freeone3000 »

overcast wrote: post #66
slim wrote: post #61

I 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.

It's expensive and slow to transfer over mobile data, and doesn't significantly improve the user experience.

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Post by kome »

overcast wrote: post #66
slim wrote: post #61

I 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 often is just unnecessary bloat (advertisers, trackers, useless animations, and so on) that's why people are angry at it.

More often than not, bare html do the trick.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by AndrewStephens »

AndrewStephens wrote: post #82
janvdberg wrote: post #16

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.

I don't understand why some mobile app are so large. If Twitter can write a webpage that provides the functionality in only 1Mb then what is in the mobile app?

Answering my own question, I just unpacked the iOS Twitter client thinking that it must contain massive graphic resources or something. Nope: mostly frameworks, the biggest being the T1Twitter.framework - 80.1Mb of who-knows-what.

That doesn't include the 17 other frameworks all over 1Mb in size (there are innumerable other smaller frameworks) for periscope and other features.

Seems to me they could ship a 5Mb app that just wraps the Twitter web site and provides iOS native experience (notifications, apple watch, etc) and call it a day.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by fsiefken »

harrygeez wrote: post #84
fsiefken wrote: post #10

This is much better then the bloated main UI. But I'd wish an option for an even lighter HN like interface. It still doesn't look to good in a text browser like elinks. One or 2 lines per tweet max would be ideal. That and a rss/atom feed that can be fed into the matrix network and clients. Originally it was a listing of 140c messages, ideal to quickly view the status of your friends to enhance social proprioception.…

They've got bills to pay. Something's gotta give. Are you willing to pay to use Twitter?

I was just thinking why not go the extra mile, I'd pay for using this though 1$/month - but I could also make it myself through tampermonkey or the api
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