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I think I've seen one interesting ad on Twitter since the beginning of Twitter

This example resized image is under 7k and is larger pixel wise than the app profile thumbnails.

. This is just some random image a guy did off this thread and if the source image were better, so would be the result.

If it got really crazy, a lazy loader could go get and resize at higher quality when the scrolling stops, and you can always dispose the originals https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46149206/how-to-resize-image-without-losing-quality

Not worth it for the very small thumbnails. Save the full size display and uncompressed picture for full page requested views, which would be like the Twitter profile full size profile view feature

That explains a lot. Literally <5k probably down to 2000 bytes, even configurable, would be fine for these thumbnails, scrolling is currently very janky. Unless the user individually requested a full size profile preview like Twitter. C# has brilliantly fast image resizing but that might only be due to Windows GDI. I made a 'facebook user profile image library' for a very similar problem years back. If there's a utility lib for Java/Android, these reduced images could go into a cache pool, and all be done in the client without a proxy online. I'm going library hunting.

The dude has clearly not spent time with ChatGPT. It's like the second Internet.