There must be a big disconnect between the tech team & the product team. Time to first tweet takes several minutes because the user is forced to follow multiple

There must be a big disconnect between the tech team & the product team. Time to first tweet takes several minutes because the user is forced to follow multiple accounts upon signup. The latency is not the tech. I wonder how much $ goes into shaving off a few milliseconds, despite the fact that even latency zero still results in minute long signup? *I'm sure it's in twitter's interest to keep the on-boarding the way it is, but that's a separate topic. [edit for clarity]