Twitter Lite launches in 21 more countries, covering more developing markets.
Data Saving Twitter Lite Is Also Available In Zim
Every day, millions of people around the world use Twitter to see what’s happening. However, there are several barriers to using Twitter, including slow mobile networks, expensive data plans, or lack of space on mobile devices
Twitter Lite launched in 21 more countries, is giving people in emerging markets a way to stay informed. The slimmed down version of the app has been added to the Google Play Store in places like Argentina, Belarus, Dominican Republic, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Romania, Turkey, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Yemen and thankfully Zimbabwe is part of that list., the company announced in a blog post.
If you use chrome, you may have been prompted to add ‘Twitter Lite’ to your homepage and this was basically just a webpage appearing as an application would and this is not the Twitter Lite that has now been launched. The application is actually available on the Playstore and it will help users save storage and data. With an install size of only 3Mb, even those with storage issues won’t have a hard time clearing a few things to install this application.
You also have the ability to turn on a data-saver mode and this will ensure that images are not automatically previewed as you scroll the timeline. Instead you can actually choose to load images on tweets you are actually interested in which is a great way of saving data.
his lighter version of the Twitter application also comes with a dark mode so you don’t have to pierce your eyes when you are checking out Twitter updates in darker surroundings.
Lite apps are increasing in popularity
Twitter is not the only one going for the less intense apps specifically targeted at developing markets. Google and Facebook also have their suite of Lite apps which include YouTube Go, Maps Go and Facebook Lite. These applications will remain useful as long as data and decent smartphones remain expensive as they are in countries like our own. Google has actually gone ahead and created a lite-version of their android software and I won’t be surprised if, in a few years time those phones are common in Zim.
Source: techZim
