Users will benefit from a better experience even on feature phones

May 8, 2012 09:46 GMT  ·  By

Twitter, the highly popular micro-blogging social network, has just delivered a new set of enhancements for those users accessing it from their mobile phones.

With an increasing number of mobile users, Twitter had to come up with a better experience for those who cannot access it via a dedicated app on their handsets.

Thus, the company decided to update the Twitter for mobile web (mobile.twitter.com), after launching the service only half a year ago, in last December.

The new improvements are meant for all those users who access the social networking via feature phones, on low-bandwidth networks, or who are forced to use older browsers.

Even so, these users will be provided with all of the main features that other Twitter customers can take advantage of.

Following the update, all tweets from the accounts that a user follows are being listed in the Home tab, the company explains.

Moreover, the update version of mobile.twitter.com enables users to have a look at their @mentions through the Connect tab.

Through the Discover tab in the new version of Twitter for mobile web, users will receive access to what’s trending, while the Me tab will provide them with the ability to see direct messages and tweets.

Designed from ground up to provide a consistent experience on low-end mobile devices and feature phones, Twitter for mobile web is fast even on slow networks, Satya Patel, the company’s VP of Product, notes in a recent blog post.

“Like Twitter for iPhone and Twitter for Android, mobile.twitter.com is fast, like a native mobile app; it uses one-third less bandwidth than the previous iteration,” Satya Patel continues.

“We’re rolling out this new mobile web experience starting today, and will continue to make Twitter the most accessible way to connect with the world, even with the weakest signals and the simplest devices.”