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Angelo Veltens

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

30 Jun 2023 at 20:21 | Open on social.veltens.org
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Angelo Veltens

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

30 Jun 2023 at 20:27 | Open on social.veltens.org
Fionn
Scott Feeney

@angelo Could be a legal angle here. That means the download your data tool doesn’t actually download your data — it’s missing the links you posted.

30 Jun 2023 at 22:54 | Open on social.coop
Brook Miles

@angelo last year when I exported my archive, there was a tool I ran that expanded all of the shortened links to their full versions, I believe it was github.com/timhutton/twitter-a

Although with the change to require a login to access the shortened links, I'm not sure if it would work if you ran it now... :thinkingg:

30 Jun 2023 at 23:17 | Open on sunny.garden
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Megan Lynch (she/her)

@angelo I'm thankful Michele Weigle pointed this out when people were leaving Twitter in November 2022. twitter.com/weiglemc/status/15 They gave directions on how to scrape the URLs & batch submit them to the Internet Archive as well as get them into a Google Sheet.

archive.org/services/wayback-g

1 Jul 2023 at 0:43 | Open on mastodon.social
Trolli Schmittlauch 🦥
ティージェーグレェ

@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...

30 Jun 2023 at 22:34 | Open on rap.social
MrClon

@angelo i always said that link shortening is stupid thing

1 Jul 2023 at 5:56 | Open on lor.sh
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