There's some great examples of Twitter's iOS code that have been open sourced, if you're curious. The code to parse Tweets, the network stack, image pipeline, text editor, and logging layer are all on github. Check them out:

https://github.com/search?q=org%3Atwitter+ios

https://github.com/twitter/twitter-text

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