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progval on Jan 17, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: js;dr = JavaScript required; Didn’t Read.

Twitter's goal is explicitly to have a single codebase that works everywhere: desktop website, mobile website, and mobile apps. (Sorry I can't find a source for this, any search with the "twitter" keyword is flooded with irrelevant results...)

It makes sense in that context; but I agree it's a shame they won't keep a small alternative frontend just to view tweets.

ryandrake on Jan 18, 2021 [–]

I think the point is: you don’t need a “codebase” to display text and images. Which is what the vast majority of web content is: text and images.

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