This past Wednesday iPhone 6 users were surprised to find that they could no longer access Twitter on their phones. Twitter updated their app to update to an iOS 14 iPhone version, but iPhone 6 users can only update their phones to iOS 12. The change in support caused iPhone 6 users to be unable to use the app, except view a few loaded tweets on their timeline.
Since the surprise update, search terms “Twitter” and “iPhone 6” have generated 10.6K mentions and reached 72.32 million users. Location-wise, Turkey contributed the highest to this conversation with 1.7K mentions. This reflects statistical data, which shows that Turkey’s top iPhone model is the 6 version.
While this has affected iPhone 6’s users ability to use Twitter’s app, they can still use Twitter on their Safari app. It is not uncommon for app platforms to update their iOS versions. As technology advances, previous iOS version do not always possess the development feature capacities needed that software developers are using when designing new app features. In most cases, the app will send notifications to users prior to a switch like this, prompting them to update their phones before they switch to a new iOS support system. The advancing technological landscape will surely continue these developments in iOS updates.
However, it won’t stop the users affected from it from banding together to make jokes about the effects it has on them.
https://twitter.com/jigslypuff/status/1509335453467820032?s=10&t=se765W3U20zHXznb9GlkkA
of all problems in the world, twitter chose to discriminate iphone 6 users??? pic.twitter.com/euLNgQvxUt
— angie (@ahn_jih) April 1, 2022
https://twitter.com/_moskid/status/1509216683680010245?s=10&t=se765W3U20zHXznb9GlkkA
Author: Eden Wallace
