[evmar]

This example is perhaps better than they meant, because reading twitter from a phone is nearly impossible due to their stupid mobile interface rewrite. (Edit: I see the first commenter on their post wrote a similar thing.)

I just timed it: after turning off the wifi, clicking my bookmark of a saved twitter search on a Nexus S took 10 seconds before it showed the centered twitter logo (presumably that ajaxes in the rest of the page?) and another two or three before showing search results.

Frequently it's long enough that my phone turns off the screen while I'm waiting for it to load, at which point I usually give up.

(Yes, this is the wrong place to complain. I am only a very casual consumer of twitter -- don't even have an account myself -- so I don't know the appropriate tech support channel. Perhaps because of my casual usage they in fact would prefer to discourage users like me.)

[zalew]

that's strange, I got no performance or usability problems with twitter, and I got a htc wildfire.

I'm talking about the app, not the page, of course.