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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.

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