Twitter decided to follow the footsteps of Facebook and YouTube to create a lite version of their social network. However before you go looking for it in the play Store, this lite version isn’t an app, it’s their mobile site instead, mobile.twitter.com. Facebook lite and YouTube Go are offered as native apps though the YouTube one has very limited availability.
According to twitter, more than 45% of smartphone users are still on 2G networks as per the data they obtained from GSMA. This prompted them to have a solution to cater for these slower networks.
Twitter already had a mobile site which consumed 40% lesser data than their main site. But with Twitter Lite , the company has added a “data saver” switch that pushes the efficiency to 70% less data usage. In this mode, pictures will be displayed as blurry and the user will tap on the ones they want to load.
