One of the downsides of disabling javascript is that you may not see websites as they intend you to see them.

I'm only using Ghostery, I wouldn't expect that to affect the main content of a site.

Ghostery's blocked list:

  DoubleClick
  Facebook Connect
  Google +1
  Google Adsense
  Google Analytics
  LinkedIn Widgets
  NetRatings SiteCensus
  ScoreCard Research Beacon
  Twitter Button
  Tynt Insight

... just disabled Ghostery, and one of those is affecting the article content.

My guess is that Ghostery considers the javascript that is served by Twitter to be a tracking device (quite possibly correctly)... but I could be wrong.