Twitter is struggling to figure out what it wants to be when it grows up. Life can be tough when you're a social network that almost everyone has heard about but no one knows how to use when they're just joining for the first time.

But despite these tumultuous times at Twitter's headquarters, the Android app has seen some of its best days in the past few months: an overhauled Material Design inspired interface, a test for a night mode, Android N Direct Reply, and more. But instead of giving something new, the latest Twitter alpha 6.9.0 takes away a feature: the homescreen widget.

If you have the widget added to your homescreen, you will see the above message instead when you're on the latest alpha. The widget is clearly no longer functional. Whether this change will carry through to the beta and stable versions remains to be seen, but it's clear that Twitter's Android developers are at least considering the possibility of removing the widget support altogether. Maybe they found out it wasn't used all that much and the people who had added it were so few that it didn't warrant keeping it alive and supported. I guess we'll have to wait and see. In the meantime, feel free to cry foul in the comments below.

Thanks: Moshe