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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by josefresco »

ahoy wrote: post #124
whalesalad wrote: post #114

Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?

Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now. This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we did a performance pass on our mobile website"

I also use(d) the old mobile.twitter.com site on my original iPad because the app would not run (memory limit)

See this new mobile.twitter.com has me wondering: What did they change?

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by josefresco »

dbbk wrote: post #119
driverdan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of that is image cache though.

Why is Twitter so aggressive with image caching? The nature of the timeline is that it's unlikely you'll see an image more than once.

Tell me about it - Reddit's app does the same thing. I'll be browsing for an extended period of time and will get the "storage full" message. I then check usage settings and it's up over 600 (whereas normally it's ~200)

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by jtraffic »

bad_user wrote: post #102
jtraffic wrote: post #73

Lightweight 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.…

This is an interesting little service: https://www.twitteraudit.com

"takes a random sample of 5000 Twitter followers for a user and calculates a score for each follower. This score is based on number of tweets, date of the last tweet, and ratio of followers to friends. We use these scores to determine whether any given user is real or fake. Of course, this scoring method is not perfect"

It says that, as of 4 years ago, 28% of Paul Graham's followers were fake and 30% of Elon Musk's were fake.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by dmix »

whalesalad wrote: post #114

Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?

Yes, it looks like they rebuilt the mobile web app with React and decided to brand it as 'lite'. Purely marketing.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by spectistcles »

tedmiston wrote: post #122
PuffinBlue wrote: post #47

This is really nice, even on desktop. And fast. Love it. Looking at them side by side you really get a sense of how much 'stuff' Twitter Heavy has compared to Twitter Lite. It would be so good if they could apply a bit of this stripped down approach to the main site and really work on list/follow management features. I'd really love to get more out of Twitter as there are a lot of great people on there but (unless I'…

A lot of those tools are in TweetDeck. Not sure why Twitter didn't integrate it more post-acquisition.

because it doesn't make them any money

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by joecool1029 »

dbbk wrote: post #119
driverdan wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of that is image cache though.

Why is Twitter so aggressive with image caching? The nature of the timeline is that it's unlikely you'll see an image more than once.

At least they finally offered a way to dump the cache on ios a couple weeks ago.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by Sindisil »

I note that, in the "lite" version's settings pages, there is no "Content" section.

Does that mean that "Show me the best Tweets first" is enabled, disabled, or follows the setting in the main twitter web app?

I assume the latter, since toggling that setting in the Android app also shows it as toggled in the man web app, which would indicate it is probably an account wide setting.

However, if the "lite" (mobile, really) web app became the only interface, it would mean that we would lose the ability to change that setting, which would suck.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by Sindisil »

A couple other things I've noticed having to do with "promoted content":

1. uBlock origin seems to block ads in the normal web client, but not in the mobile web client (in desktop FireFox as well as mobile FireFox).

2. Mobile twitter client lacks the drop-down menu where you used to be able to choose "I don't like this ad".

Now that I look at it, though, that menu on the main twitter web app doesn't have that option any more, either. You can "report this ad", which isn't quite the same.

To get to the same menu in the mobile web app, you need to tap/click the add tweet, then choose the more options icon.

The normal twitter web app has now added a "dismiss" option on mouseover.

FFS, there's no consistency of interface across the three at all!

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by [deleted] »

Sindisil wrote: post #138

A couple other things I've noticed having to do with "promoted content": 1. uBlock origin seems to block ads in the normal web client, but not in the mobile web client (in desktop FireFox as well as mobile FireFox). 2. Mobile twitter client lacks the drop-down menu where you used to be able to choose "I don't like this ad". Now that I look at it, though, that menu on the main twitter web app doesn't have that option…

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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by vincentriemer »

Sindisil wrote: post #138

A couple other things I've noticed having to do with "promoted content": 1. uBlock origin seems to block ads in the normal web client, but not in the mobile web client (in desktop FireFox as well as mobile FireFox). 2. Mobile twitter client lacks the drop-down menu where you used to be able to choose "I don't like this ad". Now that I look at it, though, that menu on the main twitter web app doesn't have that option…

From what I understand, the twitter mobile web client uses react and from a quick look at the source, they're using css modules which means the class names are generated at build time.

Considering that most ad blockers work by identifying ads through class names, it would explain why uBlock origin wouldn't work on the mobile site.

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