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X is slowing down links to websites Elon Musk has publicly feuded with | Engadget (www.engadget.com)

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he website formerly known as Twitter seems to be interfering with links to The New York Times, Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and Substack to make them load noticeably slower..

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How can Twittex slow down external links? Someone explain?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure but I saw something about t.co , which sounds like an URL shortener. I think I read that they added a 5 secs delay for some sites.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That explains it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

X shortlinks are embedded in posts, and have a sleep timer before they redirect.

More or less, anyway.