“We’re no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site,” California-based Facebook said in a message posted at its website. “If you used Lite, you’ll now be taken to the main Facebook.com site.”<\/p>\n
Lite was designed as a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enabled people to make comments, accept Friend requests, write on people’s Walls, and look at photos and Status updates.<\/p>\n
The service launched about eight months ago in a bid to cater to new users “looking to start off with a more simple experience,” Facebook said at the time.<\/p>\n
Lite was devoted to fresh comments and updates from friends in a style similar to the real-time interplay at Twitter.<\/p>\n
Twitter, which allows users to pepper one another with 140-character-or-less messages known as “tweets,” has grown rapidly in popularity since it was launched in March 2006.<\/p>\n
Twitter co-founders last week revealed that the service has more than 105 million registered users and the hot micro-blogging service is adding 300,000 new accounts a day.<\/p>\n