{"id":80534,"date":"2017-04-06T13:59:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=80534"},"modified":"2017-04-10T10:10:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T14:10:14","slug":"twitter-builds-lite-web-app-that-runs-fast","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/twitter-builds-lite-web-app-that-runs-fast","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Builds &#8216;Lite&#8217; Web App That Runs Fast, Minimizes Data Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has unveiled Twitter Lite, a mobile web app that is fast, uses less data, and takes up less storage space than the company&#8217;s app, while still supporting push notifications and offline use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The web is becoming a platform for lightweight apps that can be accessed on-demand, installed without friction, and incrementally updated,&#8221; says Nicolas Gallagher, an engineer who was technical lead for Twitter Lite.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of millions of people visit mobile.twitter.com every month, according to Gallagher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want Twitter Lite to be the best way to use Twitter when your connectivity is slow, unreliable, limited, or expensive,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/2017\/how-we-built-twitter-lite\">says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gallagher, Twitter Lite is as little as 1% the size of its native app.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the coming months, we\u2019ll be shipping more improvements to the accessibility, safety, design, functionality, and performance of Twitter Lite,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/borndigital.com\/2017\/01\/26\/social-media-use-increased-21-in-2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has unveiled Twitter Lite, a mobile web app that is fast, uses less data, and takes up less storage space than the company&#8217;s app, while still supporting push notifications and offline use. &#8220;The web is becoming a platform for lightweight apps that can be accessed on-demand, installed without friction, and incrementally updated,&#8221; says Nicolas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":73329,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[266,157,96],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-80534","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-News","tag-app","tag-social","tag-twitter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/80534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/80534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/73329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=80534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=80534"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=80534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}