Twitter embeds are equally bad. Ended up remaking them to output static HTML + CSS to improve perf (https://leerob.io/tweets).
- No JavaScript necessary
- All profile images turned into one massive sprite
- Minimal payload size
Here are what the tweets look like when rendered: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/feedback
Here's the code to achieve that: https://github.com/umaar/better-twitter-embed