X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and is now rolling out the updated app “one country at a time” to connected users.
“Open a profile on X.com over a slow connection,” said lead engineer Yagiz Nizipli in a blog post about the changes. “On the old web app, you stared at the X logo for more than 22 seconds before the first message appeared. On the new one, it appears in version 2.7.” The article also explains in technical detail how the updated application “replaces the three servers we were using for people, crawlers, and link previews with one.”
Security researcher Jane Manchun Wong said she had access to the updated app and said it “feels snappy, loads quickly, and many parts are tweaked.”
The new app is already available for the offline version of X.com and for pages crawled by search engines, Nizipli said.
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