[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.