Summary A faster, data-friendly way to see what’s happening in the world right now
(Web Desk) - Micro-blogging website Twitter has rolled 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.
The company introduces its faster version for people with intermittent connections or little data on their smartphones. It will work through a web browser, not a stand-alone phone application.
Twitter Lite has been introduced keeping in view slow mobile networks, expensive data plans, or lack of storage on mobile devices.
While smartphone adoption grew to 3.8 billion connections by the end of 2016, 45% of mobile connections are still on slower 2G networks, according to GSMA.
Other social networking sites have already been into this low-data mobile app like Facebook lite, YouTube and many more.
San Francisco-based Twitter lagged behind those companies in building a user base. It had 319 million average monthly active users at the end of last year, up 4 percent year-over-year but still a fraction of Facebook s 1.9 billion users.
Twitter Lite is available globally by visiting mobile.twitter.com on your smartphone or tablet. You can find more information about Twitter Lite at lite.twitter.com.
