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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.
"...folks gotta work on something" is exactly the attitude that unicorns with too much VC money take and end up tanking.
Introducing Twitter Lite
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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
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It works fine on desktop. Just go to http://mobile.twitter.com
It's impressive how much faster it is on even a recent laptop on broadband (admittedly I'm "only" on DSL broadband, not fiber). You now click on a username, for example, and you get their page almost instantly. While on normal Twitter, there's a noticeable half-second or so lag for the transition to load and render.
https://i.imgur.com/NfdM2sk.png
I wish we did not have to use such hacks though. And the normal mobile site has a huge header on my desktop, annoying.
Re: Introducing Twitter Lite
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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?