Ask HN: Why is HN replacing Twitter URLs with canonical URLs requiring login

Does the tweet have a canonical tag in the HTML? Asking because HN will redirect to the canonical name. That's why I use an addon to show me if that exists to save me some hassle when I submit URL's here. HN seems to ignore canonical for some domains like Youtube video URL's. Perhaps that exclusion list needs an update but probably best to email dang to ask.

I am going to guess hacker news follows the "first" redirect, and this is just x.com being sucky and a piece of asterisk lately.

Because twitter is broken. This is surely not news, a year in. You may want to submit a nitter link instead.

For me this is functionally equal to blocking twitter links.

Agreed, and a net good at that.

should redirect to nitter instead :shrug