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Re:"@" on Twitter by donttrack on Friday April 27, 2018 @08:59PM (#16945566)
... And they literally just have to show you 280 characters. Thank God they are not building flying cars..
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Re:"@" on Twitter by zaxomi on Friday April 27, 2018 @10:58PM (#16945859)
And to show you that 280 characters they need to download about 6 kbyte css, 4 kbyte javascript, 17 kbyte Google analytics, 26 kbyte jquery, 1.5 kbyte favicon, and some images... Total about 100 kbytes.
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Re:"@" on Twitter by oneeyedpigeon on Saturday April 28, 2018 @05:35AM (#16946844)
It's almost as if "they literally just have to show you 280 characters" is a bit of an oversimplification.
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Re:"@" on Twitter by FridgeSeal on Saturday April 28, 2018 @06:41PM (#16949816)
I think the point they were making was that they do all this extraneous stuff as well: if I’m looking at a single tweet, why on earth does it need to serve that much JS up? Why on earth is it not a simple HTML page with the information on it?
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