Musk says 'this is fact' Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia & some other countries

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk who recently acquired Twitter said on social media platform, Twitter is very slow in India, Indonesia and many or countries, ding that "this is fact and not claim". Twitter CEO also informed that 10 to 15 seconds to refresh homeline tweets is common but it sometimes doesn't work at all, especially on android phones. 

According to Musk, same application, Twitter in United States takes about two seconds to refresh, but nearly 20 seconds in India, due to b batching/verbose comms and also because actual useful data transferred is low. In dition to this, Musk replied to a tweet by artificial intelignece expert Mike Schroepfer, who explained former's claim on Twitter lo time in India being 20 seconds. former chief technology officer of Meta attributed time to 1200 remote procedural calls.

In anor tweet, Musk said he would "like to apologise for Twitter being super slow in many countries. app is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline! I was told ~1200 RPCs independently by several engineers at Twitter, which matches # of microservices. ex-employee is wrong," he said.

Remote Procedure Call is a technique for constructing distributed, client-server based applications. A software communication protocol that one program can use to request a service from a program located in anor computer on a network without having to understand network's details, RPC is used to call or processes on remote systems like a local system.

Several Android developers and coders outside of Twitter have also countered Musk’s claims, pointing out that or factors like ‘edge caching’ and ‘service availability’ could be influencing speed of apps like Twitter in regions like India.

Elon Musk took over Twitter last month. 51-year-old billionaire has brought in a few changes to Twitter, including a monthly payment for blue tick verification of Twitter profiles, an official label for select verified accounts and ding long-form text to tweets. Musk also has plans to take an action on bot accounts.