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[eluser]mvdg27[/eluser]
I have found some issues with twitter slowing the website down, but I prefer having all the data returned from Twitter such that I can manipulate it. One thing I've been thinking about is adding a caching mechanism. Which I think can be as simple as storing the xml feed in a file, and before accessing the live twitter feed, check whether the filetime is still valid. That would mean you only get a performance slowdown every x minutes, or hours, which I think is acceptable. The key is off course in figuring out a caching time that works for you.