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Twitter is going to start linking to Accelerated Mobile Pages

Ben Halpern on May 17, 2017

I was watching a Google I/O and, unless I am mistaken, it was mentioned that Twitter is going to start linking out to Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP...
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Sishaar Rao

Hey Ben!

I think everyone can agree that Twitter is growing (or arguably transforming) exponentially into a source for instant news and content, and the userbase is quick to become frustrated should that "instant" factor disappear. Thus, you're absolutely right that it makes sense for Twitter to begin implementing AMP linked webpages.

That being said, I'm a bit of an optimist in the entire Google-will-take-over-the-world phenomenon, and I wanted to hear more about what you see as frustrating about the adoption of it.