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Correct me if I am wrong - but this thing being branded as "Twitter Lite" and marketed on lite.twitter.com is actually just the mobile web app, available at mobile.twitter.com ... right?

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Yes, it looks like they rebuilt the mobile web app with React and decided to brand it as 'lite'. Purely marketing.

Seems to be the case. I use the mobile twitter web app because it crashes less than the native app on my older phone. It does seem noticeably faster now.

This seems like a weird branding/marketing push for what is essentially "we did a performance pass on our mobile website"

Was mobile.twitter.com a PWA before? That's what I thought the big change was - using service workers to offer offline/slow connection functionality.

I also use(d) the old mobile.twitter.com site on my original iPad because the app would not run (memory limit)

See this new mobile.twitter.com has me wondering: What did they change?

Same here. I think it is faster now, though I've only just started trying it out. The article talks a lot about the stuff they did to make it faster - many thing. Also there is a Data Saver option under Settings, which may be new.

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