[vortico]

I recently visited a Twitter page, to find that it downloaded 6.3 MB of data across 63 requests. Since it only displays around 10 140-character tweets on the first page, that's a bloat factor of 4718x in my book. Twitter is done.

[geofft]

How is bloat related to their viability as a business / long-term profitability? Does the extra bandwidth cost them a significant amount of money? Does it negatively impact a significant number of users in their target market, sufficiently so that they will stop using Twitter?

[minimaxir]

If the average user cared about page loading time, the majority of the modern internet wouldn't exist.

A multimedia site can justify the heavy asset loading.