EarlG, would it be possible to change DU's software so both x.com and twitter.com posts appear? Elon Musk has

[highplainsdem]

now changed the links to x.com.

See this OP with a Sanders tweet that I just posted:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218957251

We'd need both x.com and twitter.com, I think, for all the tweets from before this change to continue to appear in those old threads.

Thanks in advance!

[Voltaire2]

1. Let the bird die in peace.

[highplainsdem]

4. Twitter still has value. See my recent posts sourced from Twitter, one of which got nearly 300 recs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218938375

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. If you change the "x" in the URL back to "twitter" after you paste it, the tweet will still appear

At least that worked for me just now!

[highplainsdem]

3. Yes, I know. If you see the post I linked to, I posted the link both ways. But it would be nice if the x.com

version could also be made to display tweets on DU, along with the old twitter.com version.

[EarlG]

5. We haven't actually seen confirmation that this is really happening yet

We have experimented with changing the embed code, and at the moment, embeds that use x.com do not work on DU, while embeds that use twitter.com continue to work.

We've decided that no matter what happens we'll continue allowing embeds from this platform, but I don't think we need to make any changes just yet. However, we'll keep an eye on the situation.

[highplainsdem]

6. The thread I linked to in the OP is that confirmation. The new x.com Twitter link is only a link there. I had to

change x.com to twitter.com myself to make the tweet appear on DU.

Here's that thread again:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218957251

I don't know if you checked Twitter today - the change happened last night - but a lot of users, if not all, also had their display switched to night mode, which.I never use, and had to change it back. Though maybe Twitter corrected whatever snafu caused that display change since this morning.

[EarlG]

7. Nothing has changed as of yet

Embeds with twitter.com URLs still work just as they used to. Embeds with x.com do not work. That may change soon, but it hasn’t changed yet.

FWIW, in our code, simply replacing twitter.com with x.com for embeds does not work. It appears that embedding x.com URLs may come down to purchasing access to their API, which we’re certainly not going to do.

If they remove the twitter.com URL altogether, and if x.com embedding is dependent on access to their API, there will be no more embedded tweets on DU. At the moment though, things seem to be working as they have been all along.

[highplainsdem]

8. Thanks for explaining! I hadn't realized they might be doing this to try to force you to buy access to

their API, which I wouldn't want you to have to do.

I thought it might be partly about Musk's Mars-sized ego, since he's complained again and again about people still calling the platform Twitter. As they should...