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Twitter.com 2010 Redesign: What things don’t people like about #newTwitter?

14th October 2010

My answer to Twitter.com 2010 Redesign: What things don’t people like about #newTwitter? on Quora

I absolutely love the improved functionality, but I don’t like the way it’s implemented as a heavy single-page JavaScript application. It’s extremely slow to load, which is a big problem for me because I habitually open new tabs with e.g. twitter.com/username in them, and each of those tabs now takes far longer to load and show me information than old Twitter did (especially since I’ve been suffering on very slow hotel WiFi connections recently).

I also really hate the URLs forced by the Ajax-for-everything. I wish they were using HTML5 pushState on browsers that support it.

The lack of a “permalink for this tweet” is an obvious frustration which I assume they’ll fix in due time.