[redmajor12]

Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character limit, one can only conclude that the other 99.9% was malware and anti user algorithms, probably in an attempt to replicate Facebook.

[samwyse]

That was later. Initially, you could post to Twitter by sending an SMS message. No scripts to load, no tracking of what you were doing.

[Smithalicious]

What kind of character limit would justify 100k of scripts?