[huggyface]

File this under "annoying to developers and no-one else".

I never follow Twitter links because of exactly this (well and the fact that they trap you with forwards). It is a terribly negative experience. Even if I had all of those files cached the parsing and execution of all of that JavaScript is far from instantaneous.

Same deal with TechCrunch -- stopped visiting because it is such a script-laden monstrosity that it seriously diminishes the experience.

[untog]

Say- are you a developer?

[JumpCrisscross]

I'm not. And I don't like following those links through. I wasn't aware it was because of caching - I just saw slow.

[godDLL]

"You can't argue with me, because you're on HN"?

[huggyface]

True enough, I am. However sorry I thought you meant that it only annoyed people in a development sense, ala some sort of perfectionism about Firebug call chains or the like.

I have no interest in the specific code behind Twitter, whether in the presentation or behind it, but rather simply note that the general twitter experience is a poor one.