Some of the sites I frequent seem to be unbearably slow to load, apparently due to sidebar boxes that have Twitter feeds. E.g. http://www.fivethirtyeight.com and http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/

Is there a simple way to block these things ala FlashBlock? Nothing jumps out at me.

[ Googlie Goo ]

It looks like the usual AdBlock Plus tricks work. E.g.

Re: Any way to block those "Live on Twitter" things?

Post by Kaz » Sat Jan 30, 2010 2:08 am

MonztA wrote:Add this filter into Adblock Plus:

Code: Select all
||widgets.twimg.com^$third-party

Sweet! You guys are great.

Adding the domains: *.twing.com and twitter.com seem likely to take care of it.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

Cheers,
Scott.