Weird hack to get embedded tweets to load on (some versions of) iOS

foo.html

<script src="/bower_components/webcomponentsjs/webcomponents.js"></script>
<!-- added the following script after importing webcomponents.js because Twitter 
widgets call matches.apply(<something other than an element>) . Without it
the error "Can only call Element.matches on instances of Element" when trying
to embed a tweet on iOS Safari.
-->
<script>
  Element.prototype._matches = Element.prototype.matches
  Element.prototype.matches = function(element){
    if(!(this instanceof Element)){
      console.log(this)
      console.log(arguments)
      return false;
    }
    return this._matches.apply(this,arguments)
  }
</script>