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Twitter takes like full two minutes to load in recent years, is that normal?

There's something really strange that happened to me for over a year, and it's stopped. I can't remember what it was or why. I think using https://twitter.com (without the www), forcing https, and using Safari. Some combo of those things made the site almost never load properly. Try adding in a WWW or a different browser if you're interested.

I stared it for a good minute thinking maybe I wasn't being served the new font, but no, it's just so similar to Helvetica (Roman) that I have to deliberately look for the differences to tell. I compared Chirp and Helvetica side by side and the only significant differences in the characters themselves are in the upper case J, Q, and R, then lower case g and the numeral 2.

Am I missing something or is it just that I go to twitter so seldom that I assumed it was always Helvetica?

Edit: it seems it's not the font itself, but rather something going on with the rendering making it blurrier for some people than the previous typeface.

It shows Segoe UI for me