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by crazygringo
2243 days ago
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I mean, Twitter over SMS made perfect and necessary sense back in the first decade of its life. But honestly the time has long since passed where it still makes sense to support. Smartphone notifications with the app are far superior in every way. (And if you don't want to install the app? I mean, just don't use Twitter then.) And the only people who don't have smartphones these days are the kind of people who have made an intentional choice to reduce their always-on digital connection. They are the very least likely people to use Twitter anyways. It's a good thing when a company is able to simplify its software architecture to remove code that's expensive to maintain and keep protected from security vulnerabilities. |
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This needs to be qualified: with respect to Twitter's target audience.
It's empirically not true that smartphone penetration is universal. Only ~350 million smartphones exist in India for 1 billion people, for example (source: McKinsey Global Institute's "Digital India" report publication from April 2019).
It's a fair statement to say that the majority of prospective and current Twitter users have smartphones, which justifies this decision.