Now all #twitter t.co links are blocked by twitter login. All #links we ever shared via twitter can not be followed anymore without signing in to twitter, no matter where in the #WWW they point to. Twitter put a gate in front of our links by "shortening" them and now they locked the gate. We never should have given them such power. #gatedcommunities #fediverse #web
Someone should scrape all t.co links and build.up a database with the original links, or we will lose all of it eventually. Even the archives twitter gave us only contain those broken t.co links
@angelo I had a coworker in marketing circa 2008 advocate for URL shorteners in a company wide email.
IMHO, Marketing departments should be prohibited from sending things company wide, that should be reserved for IT.
Regardless, I replied, in gentle #bantown fashion.
Then the office did break out in sounds of rickrolls (as people clicked on the URL shortened link I provided illustrating why one should be wary of using such things) and laughter ensued. Some people came to me at my desk and told me they were thankful.
Alas, too few learned that lesson, apparently.
@angelo I had a coworker in marketing circa 2008 advocate for URL shorteners in a company wide email.
IMHO, Marketing departments should be prohibited from sending things company wide, that should be reserved for IT.
Regardless, I replied, in gentle #bantown fashion.
Then the office did break out in sounds of rickrolls (as people clicked on the URL shortened link I provided illustrating why one should be wary of using such things) and laughter ensued. Some people came to me at my desk and told me...
@angelo i always said that link shortening is stupid thing