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by aethr 5211 days ago
It's also worth noting that you load gmail's web client to interact with an entire inbox full of mail, sending, receiving etc.

The point of the OP is that a user is loading 2 megs to view a single tweet. A medium that is literally defined by its brevity, should not need to send 2 megs to your browser so that you can read 140 characters.