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If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview... but not for a while now. Doesn't matter if it's Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in.

Are they incompetent or is this a strategy to limit incoming traffic? 🤣

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Felonmusk

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Just out of curiosity, what happens when you switch it to x.com?

edit: I guess it doesn’t matter because it looks like they decided to start forwarding x.com links to the twitter.com version now. That’s new.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Rebrand is going great.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

it looks like they decided to start forwarding x.com links to the twitter.com version now. That’s new.

That was always the behavior for me from the start. I click on an x.com link, it brings me to twitter.com. Never was any different.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I’ll take your word for it, I was certain at one time it resolved to itself, but maybe that was a short experiment or I’m just not remembering correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

but maybe that was a short experiment

Could be, I don't click on Twitter/X links often so I could have easily missed that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Same here, I haven’t tried it in a while so I’m basing off old memories at best.