{"id":230353,"date":"2017-09-24T08:19:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230353"},"modified":"2017-09-24T08:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T06:22:38","slug":"twitter-testing-lite-android-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/230353-twitter-testing-lite-android-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter testing Lite Android app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is testing a native Android app equivalent to its Lite website, the company told <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/09\/23\/twitter-is-testing-a-twitter-lite-android-app-first-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The app is being tested in the\u00a0Philippines, and is aimed at users who cannot access LTE networks or who have handsets with limited storage.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s main functions are in the app, but it cuts out data-intensive media &#8211; and includes a &#8220;Data Saver&#8221; mode that stops images from displaying.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter said this can save up to 70% on data usage compared to the normal app.<\/p>\n<p>The Lite app is still in testing, and Twitter did not state whether it will be rolled out globally.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/229781-twitter-suspends-300000-accounts-linked-to-terrorism-in-2017.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter suspends 300,000 accounts linked to terrorism in 2017<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter is testing a native Android app equivalent to its Lite website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[405,42428],"class_list":["post-230353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-twitter","tag-twitter-lite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230353"}],"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=230353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230355,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230353\/revisions\/230355"}],"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=230353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}