2y ago

twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links

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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Why are you still using Twitter...?
- Why do we need to be so pedantic about people use or don't use?
  
  Because I have to live on the same planet as the people that spend their time on radicalization tools? Because the more closed platforms are used, the bigger the damage to the open internet they do? Because I can't even get current information on my neighborhood without it being mediated through an oligarch's platform because "that's what everyone else uses"? Because even elected officials are posting information that's not available to people that don't sign up to a service that's owned by neo-nazi?
  
  Why do we care if people support this Nazi platform or its owner?
  You might not, I wouldn't call caring about it pedantic though.
  
  But how will people know I'm a cool edgy internet user if I don't post "fuck twitter" and "AI bad" on every article without thinking that maybe people wanted to have a discussion about it?
  
  as long as you know you're still hanging out at the nazi bar, I guess there's no further discussion.
- /thread
"ChatGPT is stealing our content! Make it so scrapers can't get anything back from us"
"But web scrapers also are--"
"I don't care!"
- It's a funny thing you mention. We were told to block chat.openai.com recently by our CTO who was afraid of data leaks of internal information. Not a bad idea honestly.
  But one of my colleagues made a salient point... In that case we should do the same with Google Translate, we've been sending them gazillions of gigabytes of internal emails and other sensitive stuff. And it's also a company we also don't have any formal business or data management contract (GDPR!) with?
  "Just block ChatGPT" was the answer, but it was certainly a good point. This is the thing about hypes. It makes people think things are 'special' cases when in fact they are not. Google probably has a LOT more visibility on our company than OpenAI.
  Also they are worried about the MS version of ChatGPT because it's "not as good" (uuh it's literally the same engine) and also have data concerns even though we do have data management contracts with them and they put it black on white that they're not using our data for any kind of model training.
  
  I've seen a few companies here where ChatGPT is blocked and they use the Microsoft Azure version of it, often since they're already using Azure or Office 365 and Microsoft can probably just add it to the same contract.
- It shows up fine, even in incognito mode - it's only when the link is scraped!?!
  
  Is it the same with other profiles?
The inevitable result of an egregiously rich man-baby trying to stick it to the “woke”. I left Twitter the moment that idiot took over. Twitter is a cesspool and a joke now. Time to move on.
It speaks volumes that people are so ensconced in their worldviews that sharing links on the open Web to sites that require an account to view content on causes zero cognitive dissonance.
I'd be very curious to see the Venn diagram of people who see no problem spamming the web like this and people who complain about links to paywalled sites.
just share the nitter.net link instead :)
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.
- Facebook has this to say
  
  Rebrand is going great.
- 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.
  
  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.
Twitter is a mess that we can see. Imagine all the shit hidden on Tesla software that we can't.
Firing all your staff tends to make that happen :)
I presume this is on purpose considering they're moving towards tweets not being public (account required to view). Showing the tweet in the preview would be an easy way to get way around this
🥱
Fxtwitter.com
They're fixing most of this nonsense.
- This service really shouldn't have used "Twitter" in its domain name... Twitter/X would easily win a UDRP dispute if they decided to file one, since it contains their trademark.
- I tried that and it wasn't working for me. Just redirected to regular Twitter...
  
  It's only for embeds afaik

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