Twitter announced today that it is updating its mobile website.
The updates are to make the
website more consistent across various
mobile phones and browsers. The changes
to
Twitter brought about last December will now be available to those
using feature phones, low-bandwidth networks, and older browsers.
The announcement
was made by Satya Patel, Twitter vice president of product,
over on the
Twitter blog. Patel detailed some of the changes coming to feature
phone tweeters:
In this updated version of mobile.Twitter.com, you can see all the Tweets from the accounts you follow in the Home tab and check your @mentions in the Connect tab. You can see what’s trending in the Discover tab, and access your direct messages and Tweets in the Me tab.
Patel also stated that, similar to the iPhone and Android Twitter
websites, the new mobile
Twitter will be faster than its previous
iteration. Also, the site will use one-third less bandwidth than
before. All of these changes to Twitter’s mobile web site will begin
rolling out today.
It makes sense that Twitter is actively supporting feature phones and
simple, low-signal devices. Smartphones have not yet dominated the
industry completely: feature phones are still a large portion
of the
cell phone market. Of course, the parts of the world where Twitter can
most be an effective communication tool are the same parts where feature
phone use is most widespread.
Do you access Twitter from a feature phone? If so, how well does it work? Leave a comment
below and let us know.
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