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One tweet is more like 670 KB, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3667072 Most numbers in that article are way of

• omellet 15y ago
  That's still waaay too much for a 140 character message and a thumbnail of the author, plus possible custom css.
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  • amitparikh 15y ago
    created_at, hashtags, user_mentions, favorited, geo, id, retweet_count, retweeted, source, text, truncated. That's just a small selection of the important elements delivered in the single tweet JSON packet. I didn't even get into the 'user' stuff, which is included so that all of the other fun things about the user can be displayed. (Note: this is using the web interface to Twitter, which is what I'm assuming the OP was implying)