Which is made way worse by the fact that tweets are 280 characters of text. It's absurd that Twitter has a higher delay than a few round trips when they aren't reloading any structural content. Wtf are these people on 300k salaries doing all day?
His point is it's just 280 characters of text to download to the client to show the tweet. The client have downloaded probably 1,000x that much text before he can even see what he wants to see.
