[AndrewGaspar]

I think there are decent critiques of the Twitter Thread medium, but complaining about the bandwidth inefficiencies is just kind of silly. 22MB of data (uncompressed, uncached)?!

The good (and bad) aspect of Twitter Threads is that, adapted appropriately to the medium, individual points can be individually addressed and pulled from their original context to start new discussion, or to emphasize the most important part of the essay. I think this is probably good for sparking additional discussions, though of course it can have the down side of removing context.

[prepend]

I recently switched to a cheap mobile provider that only gives 2GB of data per month. 20MB per tweet ads up fast.

I think it’s relevant to consider content bloat, especially when it’s 100x more than is actually needed.

Telling me and other users to just suck it up and pay more isn’t a good solution. $15 vs $50 is a big difference for a monthly fee for 2GB vs unlimited.

[AndrewGaspar]

His numbers are incorrect because he's assuming every tweet is loading nothing from cache, which is wrong. If you're regularly browsing Twitter, you're not going to load 7MB per tweet thread.

[prepend]

I don’t regularly browse Twitter, I follow links from places like HN.