Thursday, 6 April 2017

Twitter launches Lite, a solution to data caps and poor mobile reception


Many people don't know this nowadays, but posting to Twitter doesn't actually require a data connection. This, just like the 140-symbol limit, is a holdover from the days when tweeting was done via sending a text message, a feature which is actually still available today. Still, it's a clunky and sometimes costly solution to the problem of data caps, so today Twitter, following in Facebook's footsteps, has announced a new, lightweight version of its service, called Twitter Lite.

Unlike Facebook's data-saving solution, however, Twitter Lite isn't an app ...

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