According to Buzzfeed, the service was developed last year by a team in India alongside a messaging app for emerging markets but it appeared to have been set aside.

TechCrunch first wrote about the potential for Twitter Lite back in 2009, when Facebook’s first version of its Lite app was announced, so this introduction is long, long overdue.

In other words, Twitter is not the first social media platform to launch a ‘lite’ offering. Except for the fact that it is browser-based (mobile.twitter.com), it is similar to other ‘Lite’ apps that are specially created for emerging markets.

In details, Facebook launched a pared down version of its core app in June 2015, which hit 200 million users earlier in 2017. The company also introduced a slimline variety of its Messenger service. Microsoft took the same approach for Skype in February 2017.

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