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Twitter Tweaks Mobile Web Version for Feature Phones

May 7, 2012, 1:30 PM by Eric M. Zeman

Twitter today announced that it has updated mobile.Twitter.com so that users of feature phones have access to more functions of the microblogging service from their handsets. The update brings all the features that were delivered to the Twitter service's main web site in December to older phones and phones that run on slower networks — all while using less bandwidth in the process. According to Twitter the new mobile web site lets feature phone users see all the Tweets from the followed accounts in the Home tab, check @mentions in the Connect tab, see what's trending in the Discover tab, and access direct messages and Tweets in the Me tab. Twitter says the mobile app is fast, and consumes two-thirds as much data as the previous web site. The mobile web site is free to use and doesn't require that uses download an app.

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Raider Duck

May 7, 2012, 2:53 PM

Just Use TweetCaster Instead

OneApps FTW! 😁

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