> I don't think you (or anyone else on this website) understand the scale at which twitter operates. Including all replies to a thread by default on a site with

> I don't think you (or anyone else on this website) understand the scale at which twitter operates. Including all replies to a thread by default on a site with that amount of traffic will increase the load of ... everything. Dramatically. I understand fetching all the replies all the time is next to impossible, that's not what I was criticizing, I get the impression that Twitter is doing a good job performance wise anyway. > And, honestly I would not be surprised if it were incompetence, either. The skill of the silicon valley developer (as demonstrated by the commenters here) does not impress me even a little. I think incompetence is part of it, but not the only reason. Twitter probably wants its mobile users to interact through the native iOS/Android apps. It's not as obvious as with what Reddit is doing but making the website act flaky and a bit unpleasant to use is certainly a way to get more people to use the app. I imagine the app looks and feels better. I never used it and I don't intend to, for unrelated reasons. But then I guess I don't really have a right to complain.