{"id":278317,"date":"2018-10-04T08:43:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T06:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=278317"},"modified":"2018-10-04T13:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:15:17","slug":"twitter-adds-new-data-saver-feature-to-mobile-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/278317-twitter-adds-new-data-saver-feature-to-mobile-app.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter adds new Data Saver feature to mobile app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has updated its mobile app for Android and iOS, adding a new Data Saver feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/10\/03\/twitter-launches-a-data-saver-mode-that-turns-its-main-app-into-twitter-lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company previously launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/240456-twitter-lite-now-available-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Twitter Lite<\/strong><\/a> application for emerging markets, and now lets users of its primary app limit mobile data usage.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter&#8217;s Data Saver option has been available in the Twitter for Windows application and its mobile website for some time.<\/p>\n<p>Data Saver can be accessed from within the Data Usage settings menu in the mobile app, and users can choose to toggle the option on or off.<\/p>\n<p>When enabled, Data Saver reduces the quality of images and disables autoplaying videos in the Twitter app, allowing users to load high-quality images manually for each piece of content on their timeline.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/277891-twitter-ramps-up-fight-against-fake-profiles.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Twitter ramps up fight against fake profiles<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter has updated its mobile app for Android and iOS, adding a new Data Saver feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,691,33314,405],"class_list":["post-278317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-ios","tag-mobile-app","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278317"}],"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=278317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278335,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278317\/revisions\/278335"}],"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=278317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}