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Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by jacobr »

mxuribe wrote: post #107

Near 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 t…

Google might have helped out to promote the PWA technology which they are pushing hard.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by zwily »

infogulch wrote: post #103
yasserkaddour wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

In React Native, you don't have the standard DOM elements since you're not working in a DOM, so it provides some standard elements that get turned into native components (Button, Text, etc). It looks like this is porting those components back to the web. Sounds silly at first, but looks like it can be useful for RN shops.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by Zenst »

madeofpalk wrote: post #81
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.

WAT, No that was not the point I was making. The point I was making was twitter have done this to produce a lower usage client for users who are still upon the likes of 2G networks and with that they already had SMS, which is about as lite as you can get upon that platform.

As for the rest of your assertions, that is entirely a different matter and not one I raised in the slightest.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by qubyte »

This lets me do side-by-side full screen on a mac, which the full website can't do (not responsive so I can't make it narrow enough) and the mac app won't. The previous mobile site was nearly good enough, but required refreshing for new tweets. Very happy that this is available.

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by daliwali »

daleharvey wrote: post #80
daliwali wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This comment is getting downvoted but if it's true, it's absolutely a good point. They are optimizing for what is inherently slower: loading JS in the client before anything can be seen or interacted with, rather than rendering HTML and forms so one doesn't have to wait for JS to compile and execute (and all the tracking bloat that comes with it).

It is not true, the slow part of web applications is loading over the network, server side rendering puts a dependency on the network and is therefore vastly slower. With service workers and client side storage you can get to display at least a shell, sometimes the entire UI without touching the network. It is a lot faster

Where do you think that JS in a web page comes from? Not from the network?

Service workers are a cache (and background process), and you still have to consider cache misses. Even if you have a giant JS app and cache it, users still have to download all the JS to actually work offline no matter what.

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Post by izacus »

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?

Yes, where do I sign up?

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by bonoetmalo »

mplis7 wrote: post #83
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.

Yeah, it's only available through Google services in developing countries, but the APKs are freely available online

Re: Introducing Twitter Lite

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Post by tedmiston »

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.…

My account is a similar size and I get hundreds of spam follows every year on Twitter. I always report and block them.
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