Facebook Lite is a version of Facebook being tested for countries with lowbandwidth.
Inside Facebook offers screenshots like this oneYes, it does look quite similar to Twitter. Nicholas Carlson at Silicon Alley Insider makes a good point in that even if Facebook isnt really going this direction, it still highlights the fact that at its core Facebook isnt all that different from Twitter. Sure, it has some more bells and whistles, but at the end of the day, its main functions are very similar. Who knows though? Twitter has a while to go before it reaches Facebook status, but if one day Twitter were to surpass Facebook in users, Facebook could conceivably go for something more like Facebook Lite. As noted, Facebook has done a variety of things that made it more like Twitter, and as you may recall, Facebook has been willing to implement radical redesigns, even when many users clearly objected.
