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Comment by hayd | Hacker News Reader

Noticed this morning that nitter was down and twitter made tweets completely unavailable until you're logged in. Very annoying.

I wonder what happened to embedded tweets?

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1 point by Traittor 2 days ago | prev | next [–]

I just made an updated tool that should work Replace http://twitter.com by http://traittor.net

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

https://traittor.net/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

Is normally bypassing no registered account and limit by day.

Have fun :)

This comment on a related HN post seems to indicate they're still working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542606

Here's the example link from that comment: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311...

Edit: and here's a random news article (post?) that has a working embedded tweet: https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780357/new-footage-of-t...

(Embedded tweets also stopped working.)

And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" articles at this point.

Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured it was good archival practice to rely on the Twitter API in providing context.

For years, if I didn't enable twitter's javascript, news articles are missing images and quotes, obviously so. It's embarrassing, I honestly don't know how they recover from this, I don't know why they kept relying on Twitter embedding when screenshots and copy/paste work better and don't break.

I grew up with the practice of never putting more of my life in the digital world than necessary. Given the recent Amazon smarthome snafu I don't see a reason to change.

Very innovation, many progress.

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