Facebook announced the termination of Facebook Lite Plan

Social networking site Facebook shut down "Starter Edition" (Lite) service, which critics had once been a "challenge to Twitter weapon."

U.S. time on April 20, Facebook posted the text on the site, said: "We no longer support the lightweight version of Starter Edition from test site which was a lot of experience. If you used the light version, now back to Facebook.com main site. "

Lite designed for fast downloads, streamlined version of Facebook, allows users to comment, add friends accepted request, in other graffiti wall messages and view photos and status updates.

The service started about 8 months ago, Facebook was that it was to meet "I hope to more easily start" the new user. Focus on the latest comments from friends and updates, styles similar to Twitter's real-time interaction.

Facebook does not do much on the close Lite explanation. Analysis that Facebook shut down Lite may be considered for two cases, one in the market testing process Lite usage much lower than expected; Second, the utilization rate may be higher than expected, making Facebook the third-party programs and a access some functions decline, and loss of advertising revenues, which are Facebook's profit growth.

Facebook shutting down unwanted and defective in the functions of the above has always been never hesitated, before it cut the often-criticized Beacon classified ads plugin project. Meanwhile, Facebook has announced that it will at its F8 developer conference to provide some more complex features, such as similar to the Wikipedia "community page" function.