San Francisco Aug 24 (IANS) Micro-blogging site Twitter is ending support for all iPhone and iPad users who are running iOS 9 or older versions of the operating system.
According to a message in the app s update text in its latest App Store released this week only those users running iOS 10 or higher will continue to have a supported mobile client. The company s message notes that this decision will allow it to streamline its app development for all clients TechCrunch reported late on Thursday.
Twitter has until now supported devices like the iPhone 4 5 6 and their variants.
The company is now officially dropping them from their supported device line-up meaning the device users will no longer receive feature updates or bug fixes for the Twitter app.
"It s not unprecedented for social apps to make this choice -- LinkedIn and Snapchat also only support iOS 10 or higher. Facebook meanwhile caters to anyone on iOS 9 or above " the report added.

--IANS ksc/mag/bg