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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by smarx007 on Friday December 18, 2020 @06:42AM (#25466139)
They will serve same content to users with JS enabled and legit Googlebots while blocking clients w/o JS and bots. I don't think it violates Google rules but ofc is of questionable decency.
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Re:Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching i... by ec109685 on Friday December 18, 2020 @09:29AM (#25467394)
And Google can verify by crawling the site with and without JavaScript.

Also, google has a commercial relationship with them: https://www.convinceandconvert.com/social-media-research/twi...

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