Most reliable and lightweight Twitter API for .NET
I am currently using LinqToTwitter in an application that displays about 15 Twitter users, their profile pic, username, name, and tweets in an MVC application. I am encountering two issues. One, it takes nearly 10 seconds to return the model containing the Twitter data back to the view. Two, I am encountering sporadic time out exceptions. Needless to say, neither issue is a good thing. 

So my question is, to people have implemented similar solutions, what is the most reliable and lightweight Twitter API for .NET?
Most reliable and lightweight Twitter API for .NET
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I am currently using LinqToTwitter in an application that displays about 15 Twitter users, their profile pic, username, name, and tweets in an MVC application. I am encountering two issues. One, it takes nearly 10 seconds to return the model containing the Twitter data back to the view. Two, I am encountering sporadic time out exceptions. Needless to say, neither issue is a good thing. 

So my question is, to people have implemented similar solutions, what is the most reliable and lightweight Twitter API for .NET?