How is this any better than the direct link to gist? Why did I have to click and load the (terribly bloated) Twitter website just to see nothing but a link to a

How is this any better than the direct link to gist? Why did I have to click and load the (terribly bloated) Twitter website just to see nothing but a link to another another resource. That's like when you're looking up a word in a dictionary and once you find it, you're told to look up another word. A waste of time.