{"id":205914,"date":"2017-04-06T12:12:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=205914"},"modified":"2017-04-06T12:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T10:14:04","slug":"twitter-lite-has-data-saver-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/205914-twitter-lite-has-data-saver-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Lite has data saver mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has launched a new &#8220;Lite&#8221; mobile version of its service, aimed at users on 2G networks.<\/p>\n<p>It\u00a0loads quickly on slower connections, is resilient on unreliable networks, and takes up less than 1MB on a device.<\/p>\n<p>It also has up to 30% faster launch times and quicker navigation throughout Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The lightweight version of Twitter includes access to\u00a0your timeline, posting Tweets, Direct Messages, trends, profiles, media uploads, and notifications.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Data saver<\/h3>\n<p>Twitter Lite has\u00a0a data saver mode, which the company said will further reduce the amount of mobile data used.<\/p>\n<p>In this mode, you will see previews of images and videos before choosing what to load &#8211; which Twitter said can reduce data usage by up to 70%.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter Lite in browsers further offers push notifications and offline support.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Twitter\/status\/849854502433808384<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/205600-businesses-can-request-locations-in-twitter-direct-messages.html\">Businesses can request locations in Twitter Direct Messages<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has launched a new &#8220;Lite&#8221; mobile version of its service, aimed at users on 2G networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[405,42428],"class_list":["post-205914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-lite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205974,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205914\/revisions\/205974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}