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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by jakub_g on Friday December 18, 2020 @04:35AM (#25465409)
The website continues to work, but when you go to "Messages" tab, it shows an error.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by bArray on Friday December 18, 2020 @08:15AM (#25466708)
Not for me? Seems to work as per normal in my case. I can't tell you exactly why that is though.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by jakub_g on Friday December 18, 2020 @10:44AM (#25468129)
Are you based in EU or outside? Perhaps it's an EU-only bug/feature after latest changes to be compliant with EU privacy rules.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by bArray on Saturday December 19, 2020 @01:14AM (#25475510)
I'm currently based outside the EU and US, perhaps it is as you say. I'm not entirely sure why the privacy rules would change so drastically on a HTML based page though...
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