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		mgkimsal on March 27, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Hacking Twitter's Javascript The DOM performance hit is probably smaller than the network hit (both on the client and at the server side) for doing all at once (if I'm understanding it correctly).

jazzychad on March 27, 2011 | [–]

It's all done client-side, so in this case there is no network hit for doing the timestamp updates anyway.

mgkimsal on March 27, 2011 | [–]

Guess I wasn't understanding it correctly then :)

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