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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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[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"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!"

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 26 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 25 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 years ago

just share the nitter.net link instead :)

[–] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 14 points 2 years ago

Twitter is a mess that we can see. Imagine all the shit hidden on Tesla software that we can't.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] marco@beehaw.org 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 17 points 2 years ago

Rebrand is going great.

[–] bl4kers@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Zworf@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Firing all your staff tends to make that happen :)

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago
[–] pirrrrrrrr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Fxtwitter.com

They're fixing most of this nonsense.

[–] marco@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I tried that and it wasn't working for me. Just redirected to regular Twitter...

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

It's only for embeds afaik

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 2 years ago

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.