Using push state and using non-hash banged urls is the right move. Twitter is pretty much unusable without javascript, and it doesn't look like they ever got a

Using push state and using non-hash banged urls is the right move. Twitter is pretty much unusable without javascript, and it doesn't look like they ever got around to implementing a non-js fallback for the site. Best solution is to have both (JSON and static) representations or use something like pjax https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax https://github.com/defunkt/jquery-pjax.