For me, the most annoying aspect of China’s firewall was not that facebook and twitter was blocked. It is refreshing to take a break from  these social networks. However, the consequence of facebook and twitter being blocked is debilitating for most modern sites trying to reach people in PRC.

If your site using any facebook or twitter plugins such as fb connect, fb comments, fb like , and twitter share widget you site may be slow to load or not load at all. Several high profile site such as techcrunch take forever to load partially, not because their content is block by China, but they are are utilizing fb plugins.

What you can do about this?

1. Protest in Tiananmen square.

2. Modify your site so the the fb & twitter js to load asycronously so it doesn’t affect the loading of your other contents.

3. Or don’t load the plugins for ips from PRC.