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by userbinator 1528 days ago
You get a megabyte of JS bloat along with your 288 character tweet.

For a very long time, if you went to mobile.twitter.com and set your User-Agent to that of some old browser, you'd get a sane plain-HTML version. Apparently you can still get plain HTML if you use Googlebot instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25464280