If you are a Twitter user on Android and have updated to the latest version 4.2.1 in recent days, you will have discovered with displeasure the disastrous battery of bugs that come with it. Inexplicably, the latest update has turned using the app into a unbearable poison highly unsatisfactory user experience.
User discontent is more than evident. To see this, one only needs to check the latest ratings on Google Play, where one-star scores and negative comments are piling up by the minute.
If you are one of the many users unhappy with the latest Twitter update, in this post we will show you how to do a downgrade, that is, revert Twitter to the version from a week ago, 4.1.1, prior to the latest update.
Twitter’s Blunders
The “improvements” provided by the developers, which can only be justified by them being on the beach with a Daiquiri in hand and having left the intern in charge, users highlight the following:
- The notification sound alert keeps playing, even if we turn it off.
- Font change on high-resolution screens. The new size is disproportionate, and the font is too thin to be comfortably readable.
- Problems uploading and downloading images. There are also issues displaying user profile pictures.
- The worst, by far, the app has become extremely slow and frequently crashes.
Instructions to Remove the Update
If you suffer from one or, likely, all of the errors mentioned above, the solution is very simple. Remove the new version and install the old one, until Twitter’s developers fix the problems. The process is really simple, just follow these steps:
- Delete the installed Twitter application. To do this, go to Menu > Settings > Applications, choose the Twitter app, and select Uninstall.
- Download the previous version from this link Twitter 4.1.1
- Copy the downloaded file to your phone. You can use any of the usual methods for this, for example, connecting it to the computer with the cable, copying it to the SD card, transferring it via Dropbox, etc…
- Make sure you have the option to install third-party applications enabled. To do this, go to Menu > Settings > Security, and make sure “Unknown sources” is checked.
- Use your phone’s file explorer to locate the file you copied to your phone’s memory. If you don’t have a file explorer, there are many available, for example ES Explorer, available for free on Google Play.
- Tap on the file and the Twitter installation will begin.
- Log in with your account (don’t worry, it’s normal to enter your details again. Keep in mind that you uninstalled Twitter, so for all intents and purposes, it’s as if you installed it for the first time)
Voilà! You now have Twitter restored as it was a week ago. I recommend you disable automatic updates until Twitter’s developers stop fumbling with their product. I recommend not updating the app until user comments on Google Play become positive again.
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