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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.
> Today, we are rolling out Twitter Lite, a new mobile web experience which minimizes data usage, loads quickly on slower connections, is resilient on unreliable mobile networks, and takes up less than 1MB on your device. 1 MB is “acceptable” by today’s standards, but when you think about it — 1 MB to display a few 140-character tweets?
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'…
EDIT: it seems they do not, thank god for that.
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Isn't ReactNative for native mobile apps though? This is a web app
I think they used React Native for Web https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
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I think they used React Native for Web https://github.com/necolas/react-native-web
Wait what. A web framework, adapted to work for native mobile, adapted back to work on the web?
How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.
By making that platform more accessible to millions of potential users. Their main source of revenue are Ad's so anything to increase a user count would seem like a good direction to go in.
How does this help their profitability? Expanding to developing regions when they can't make a profit in the US seems like a waste of time.
I'm sure that they have a lot of people trying to work toward profitability. But it's a big company. Lots of engineers. They still have a frontend team, and those folks gotta work on something.
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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 ag…
Well, Paul Graham and Elon Musk are insanely popular.