Facebook is checking a stripped-down version of its social-networking Web site. The new version, which reportedly increases the speed of updates and posts, is expected to construct Facebook a better contender against Twitter.

Late Tuesday, Facebook mistakenly sent out an invitation to a large audience of users to tryout the version, dubbed Facebook Lite. The invitation was intended for only a small number of users, Facebook told TechCrunch.

The majority of users who received the invitation and a link to

follow were sent to the current version of Facebook. The move confused and frustrated users.

“This evening, the tryout was temporarily exposed to a larger set of users by mistake,” Facebook said. “We have not opened up access to lite.facebook.com to all users at that day. folks who are not part of the analysis and are trying to access Lite will be directed to Facebook.com as usual.”

Peaked Interest

While the slipup […]

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