The writing was on the wall when Twitter started supporting pictures natively. This is the risk any online service or app runs when its business relies on another party.
TremulaJS (trem-yoo-la) is a client-side javascript UI component providing Bézier-based content-stream interactions with kinetic scrolling & physics effects for scroll and touch UIs.
Put another way, TremulaJS can be thought of as an extremely bad-ass image slider.