Twitter Lite - Loads quickly, takes up less space, and is data-friendly.

Once upon a time, Twitter was "Lite", before all the GIFs and videos.

Twitter is taking on slow connections speeds with Twitter Lite. By the numbers: - 30% faster - up to 70% less data usage - takes up less than 1mb of storage

This is super nice. I can just imagine the team inside Twitter gathering around with the task of making packaging up Twitters core essentials into the smallest, most accessible app yet. An exciting challenge and from the sounds of it the team have done a superb job. And also in general, it's great to see Twitter shipping again. It seems like there's been an internal culture shift here, from "we must not touch the sacred Twitter" to "lets iterate and really solve people's problems". Congrats to all at the team who are a part of that.

Great not only for slow connections, but also for roaming charges when you are in a different country. Less data usage means less cost!

Thank goodness! I will use this even when I have faster internet on-the-go.

It's pretty dope that they partnered with Google to make this. Maybe Google will acquire them *wink wink*

I like it better vs Twitter.com

Twitter should have done the Coca-Cola thing and called this Twitter Classic.

This is great. A very small percentage of users actually have a fast and/or stable Internet connection. This allows those users to also browse with less hassle. What an amazing challenge the team at Twitter have had to meet. 💥

I wonder if this will increase Twitters reach into international markets where bandwidth is even more of an issue.