Twitter only resizes user icon. View this account's icon. Wasted bandwidth(twitter.com)
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Twitter only resizes user icon. View this account's icon. Wasted bandwidth
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I think you might want to try http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/ or http://help.twitter.com/.
For infrastructure upgrades? Seems more like an internal issue than a user issue.
If you look around further, you'll notice that it gets a LOT worse than that particular example. While developing Twitter support on an iPhone app, we discovered that some account icons far exceed 1MB in size, which ended up causing us some memory usage issues. So it goes..