[jasonmar]

HN is always talking about metrics, scalability, and engineering, here's my take on this from that perspective:

Imagine a twitter engineer working on the redesign was looking at data from the homepage, looking for something to remove.

It turns out that the least clicked on thing on the entire page is the client attribution.

He looks at eye-tracking data too, and it turns out the only people who look at the client names, are developers!

The engineer opens his iPhone's calculator, and finds that by removing attribution he is reducing dynamic stream content by 33% (tweet, time, attribution) for 100M+ users.

What kind of engineer is not going to jump on this? Especially for a piece nobody except developers is going to complain about losing?

A cleaner, faster homepage is better for users. Sorry developers, the world does not revolve around you.