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... And they literally just have to show you 280 characters. Thank God they are not building flying cars..
by donttrack 8y ago
... And they literally just have to show you 280 characters. Thank God they are not building flying cars..
- zaxomi 8y agoAnd 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.
- oneeyedpigeon 8y agoIt's almost as if "they literally just have to show you 280 characters" is a bit of an oversimplification.
- FridgeSeal 8y agoI 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?