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Twitter summary: https://twitter.com/ssgrn/status/1738256456250470853

Github: https://github.com/KaiNylund/lm-weights-encode-time

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Usable non musky version:

https://nitter.net/ssgrn/status/1738256456250470853

the X version worked fine for me. I don't know what you want to achieve by posting a link to a third party website.

I’m not on Twitter, and found it valuable to see the replies!

Twitter's not very usable these days.

He said he would sink the company...

I don’t have a twitter account, and many don’t. Twitter is slow, nitter is fast. Twitter has never reliably displayed threads for me. Nitter does.

>Twitter is slow

It’s faster than it’s ever been, and seemingly without 85% of its staff. Says a lot

And yet nitter is still faster with only 47 contributors total. Says more.

... because it is essentially a caching proxy to twitter?

So is twitter.com. Unless they aren't using a CDN lol

X's reduced user base might make X faster than ever.

I think the advertiser boycott is a major contributor. Advertisements are slow...

Twitter requires JS to work though.

No, no it is not.

Some data for me:

Nitter: I get all 8 posts in the thread in 18 requests, 207 kB, 169 kB transferred.

X: I only get the first post, 128 requests, 11.45 MB, 2.11 MB transferred.

Twitter doesn’t show replies if you are not logged in. As others have said, I also don’t have an account. So this link provides the full context. The twitter link only shows the post and no replies.

Twitter doesn't even show most recent tweets from profiles unless you are logged in now. They show a summary of the profile's activity. Nitter is great if you don't have a Twitter account.

All of the links were to a third party website.

x.com links requires being logged in to even read the thread.

Allowing people without twitter accounts to view it.

Allowing those who would otherwise avoid twitter to view the content.

Thanks!

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