re: twitter links in posts

polymoog

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for anyone posting links to twitter, please keep in mind that those who do not have a twitter account wont be able to see the clip (unless they sign up themselves).
 

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supposedly, its a move by musk to prevent data scraping on twitter.
 
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for anyone posting links to twitter, please keep in mind that those who do not have a twitter account wont be able to see the clip (unless they sign up themselves).
Do you mean youre not able to see them embedded on the forum, or if you click on a post on the new page it won't load?

I don't have an account and refuse to get one, and the twitter posts are visible to me while embedded. It's when i try to open a new page that they won't load.

I'm wondering if they're not showing up while embedded for everyone else?
 

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Do you mean youre not able to see them embedded on the forum, or if you click on a post on the new page it won't load?
ill click on, say, karlysimons link to twitter and i will get the sign into twitter popup (links open in new tabs for me). a week ago, i would see the video.
 
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ill click on, say, karlysimons link to twitter and i will get the sign into twitter popup (links open in new tabs for me). a week ago, i would see the video.
Yeah, that started happening to me about a week ago as well.

Hopefully not permanent, but if it is as long as i can still see embedded tweets and get the url to embed them, i will adjust
 

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For example, put "vigilantfeed", and:

People can log in and see the tweets, but I don't know how they go out on the forum. I'll check it out now:


So it's not showing as a tweet (unless there's some way I don't know), but a user can be followed, can to be see tweets, so...
 
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