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493.2 MB here. Sheesh.
Most of that is image cache though.
As a user, that's totally opaque to me. I know my phone is running out of space and photos in general and Twitter in particular take up most of that space.
Introducing Twitter Lite
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#102Lightweight 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.
I don't deal with spam much, I notice the occasional fav or retweet from obviously fake accounts, sometimes I get a mention too. But all of these happen once per month maybe and I do my job in blocking and reporting every account I notice. Once per month is a pretty low rate, I get more spam than that in my email Inbox.
I also have direct messages from everybody active. Since enabling it I haven't received any spam. Maybe I've been lucky :)
And I don't have an obscure account (https://twitter.com/alexelcu). Maybe more popular accounts see more spam, I don't know.
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#103Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
#104This 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.…
> "...can be fed into the matrix network and clients..."
There exists a matrix-to-twitter bridge that I believe allows for this use-case: https://github.com/Half-Shot/matrix-appservice-twitter
It might only be alpha phase, but why not give it a shot? I'm not the developer for that, but am a happy user of the matrix protocol. Also, there are plenty of users leveraging matrix with several other bridges as well such as irc, slack, gitter, etc.
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#105Lightweight 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.
I don't deal with spam much, I notice the occasional fav or retweet from obviously fake accounts, sometimes I get a mention too. But all of these happen once per month maybe and I do my job in blocking and reporting every account I notice. Once per month is a pretty low rate, I get more spam than that in my email Inbox. I also have direct messages from everybody active. Since enabling it I haven't received any spam.…
If you view twitter by hashtag, you see a lot of spam on popular hashtags - obviously fake accounts who've just put the top 5 hashtags on top of a link they're advertising.
Personal @spam is pretty rare.
Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
#106I 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.
The excellent Twitter app Twidere is only 9.3 MB. [0] No ads either! [0] https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=twidere&fdid...
Seconding recommendation, but there are drawbacks: it's nearly impossible to read an entire thread by a person, and sometimes even seeing the chain of parent tweets is difficult.
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#107Near the bottom of the lite.twitter.com page it states "Twitter Lite...developed in partnership with Google."
Is this the beginning of a partnership test with google as a sort of test to see how viable twitter would be to be acquired by google? Sort of like a few first dates before considering "corporate marriage"? Hmmm...perhaps my conspiracy theorist cap is on too tight. I wouldn't say that I'm a fan of either of the twitter or G+ platforms, but i can see some business rationale for google absorbing and continuing to run twitter - both the company and the platform. Ah, well.
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#108It's great to have a less bloated site, but it still uses the same UI which is only viable for the most basic usage. The thing I want improved the most is list viewing and management. Right now the only good way to view lists is tweetdeck which only really works on desktop.
This Twitter lite seems to ignore lists completely. I like it, but lists are a killer feature for me.
Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
#109This 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'd pay a bit to use twitter. What I'm concerned about is that I'd like something comparable to "reddit gold" - a means to pay for other people to use twitter so they can continue to post there for my and others' benefit.
Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
#110I 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.
The Android APK is around 30-31 MB