Probably not as surprising given the recent reports that Twitter downranks tweets with hyperlinks.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/elon-musk-admits-x-is-throttli...
> Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information.
> User Paul Graham, who has nearly two million followers, blasted “Twitter’s biggest flaw” was the “deprioritization of tweets with links in them” in a complaint posted on Sunday.
https://x.com/paulg/status/1860810383021277424
> In reply, Musk suggested a workaround: “Just write a description in the main post and put the link in the reply. This just stops lazy linking.”