have profiled Twitter memory usage a bit. it starts near 50mb on a fresh page load and creeps up at the rate of 10-15mb per minute forever until you refresh the page. the memory leaks are a design feature I think. maybe they get to serve new ads when you refresh?
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honestly this conspiratorial mindset seems like the only sensible explanation that 10% of the time the tweet input will get so slow, presumably from memory leaks, that I'll have to refresh the page
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at the least it's plausible explanation of why Twitter might not be prioritizing a bugfix: "we can't fix this known memory leak because our advertising analytics numbers will go down and management will think we screwed something up"
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it kinda fits enough that I'm not 100% sure I'm just being paranoid. the other thing is it's probably relatively hard to fix, very multi-faceted problem touching a ton of code, and generally not worth it cuz page refresh is a thing so what's the problem really?
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yes true. but we mustn't let those voices of sense in our heads win out!
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I would never, lead with paranoia, renegotiate to reason only under duress.
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Two words: Google News.
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