[tripzilch]

Try http://m.twitter.com , it's the dressed-down mobile version of Twitter.

It doesn't have all the features, but easily makes up for that by the fact that you can actually click around as much as you like without your browser getting all slumpy from loading huge pages or doing javascript.

You'd expect caching to help, but there's a lot of truth in the jQuery tax article[1]: even if you got the code cached, executing it all takes a significant amount of time, and the sluggishness is made worse by the fact that during this time your CPU is busy, unlike with data transfers which at most cost some memory.

I don't use the m.twitter.com site all the time, but I switch often enough whenever I get too annoyed by default Twitter's slowness.

The only real downside (for me) is that you can't click through to a full resolution version of a profile picture. Otherwise all the basic features are in there.

[1] http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jq...