Is a new Facebook version due for release? - mashable update

Social media space is abuzz with the news of Facebook launching a lite version of its application, of what i could gather from the information flowing across the circle is that the new version would be much like the twitter stream. It is most likely a direct assault on Twitter. Facebook continues to find ways to make itself competitive with Twitter. This is why Facebook has been launching features such as public profiles, profile fans, public status updates, and realtime search. Twitter is simple, so Facebook’s fighting back with the same.

It’s a limited test for only a subset of users. The fact that thousands, if not millions of users got the test notice was a bug. Most likely Facebook will open up the test to more users very soon, especially since everybody now knows about it.

Do you think a lighter version of FB is required when we know that Facebook has been growing much faster than twitter over the last couple of years?