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<\/p>\nTwitter is rolling out its \u201cLite\u201d version, after a\u00a0successful trial in the Philippines.\u00a0The Android app will become available in two dozen countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.<\/p>\n
Not too different from\u00a0Facebook Lite,\u00a0Twitter has also built a version of its app that\u2019s optimized for developing countries. Twitter Lite minimizes data usage, which makes it more accessible in regions where data plans are too expensive.<\/p>\n
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The app is able to load faster on a slow connection. Twitter says it is \u201cmore resilient on unreliable mobile networks,\u201d like 2G and 3G. Twitter additionally reduced the size of the app to under 3MB, so that it doesn\u2019t take up too much space on a phone.<\/p>\n
The full list of countries where Twitter Lite is being made available is Algeria, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Egypt, Israel, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Malaysia, Nigeria, Nepal, Panama, Peru, Serbia, El Salvador, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, Tanzania and Venezuela.<\/p>\n
Twitter says its experiment in the Philippines has led to a greater than 50% increase in tweets.<\/p>\n
The move should help Twitter expand its presence internationally. The company has 330 million monthly active users, 80% of whom are outside the U.S.<\/p>\n
Twitter investors closely watch the company\u2019s user growth. After a volatile few years on the stock market, Twitter\u2019s stock has mostly remained constant for the past year. But at\u00a0$20.58, it\u2019s still less than a third of the high of $69 it achieved in early 2014.<\/p>\n
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Source: TechCrunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Twitter is rolling out its \u201cLite\u201d version, after a\u00a0successful trial in the Philippines.\u00a0The Android app will become available in two dozen countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. Not too different from\u00a0Facebook Lite,\u00a0Twitter has also built a version of its app that\u2019s optimized for developing countries. Twitter Lite minimizes data usage, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":189754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[106],"tags":[1492,1030,15085],"yoast_head":"\n