Virgin Mobile makes Twitter 'free' to access

If you have a 4G plan with Virgin Mobile, you can now access Twitter without diving in to your monthly data allowance. That means you can scroll through your feed, check your mentions and respond to pressing Direct Messages without fear of incurring any charges. The "data-free" access joins Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, which the company first offered to subscribers last November. The only catch is that you can't stream live video through the app -- so if you want to watch the news or catch up with the day's Wimbledon action, you'll need to look elsewhere. Virgin Media says the expansion is part of a larger "plan" to offer data-free social messaging.