[nonfamous]

I usually live in the US, but I’ve been in Australia for the last couple of weeks on holidays. Twitter is unbearably slow here, and video on Twitter is basically unusable (most videos fail to load in the timeline). And this experience is the same using cellular and various WiFi sources, so it’s not an ISP problem.

[pigeoneater77]

The post was about New Zealand. Internet speeds here are fortunately generally heaps better than in Australia

[KyeRussell]

I think that OP is implying that it’s a Twitter regional infrastructure problem, in which case - and I’d happily be corrected on this by anyone that actually knows Twitter’s infra - I’d imagine that NZ and AU are largely intertwined.

I’m sure that if the take was “the internet here is too slow for video” the typical HN commenter would know that it’s not relevant to this thread. This is ignoring the fact that the typical Australian internet connection is more then capable of handling what OP is not able to do.

[rasz]

Its Telstra problem. In AU they have data caps on internal traffic inside their shiny national fiberoptic network.

[mosajjal]

a lot of global companies rely on only US/EU servers to provide web services. leaves a lot of Asian countries to reach to the closest server to grab the data. in case of Twitter, that's usually US servers hence at least 300ms latency per request