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Re:Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains by cornel_io on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:15AM (#37130452)
Actually, re: my edit - I think it really is worth considering whether there might be an accidental delay here that's on the NYT side. It's totally possible that Twitter is hitting the sites it redirects people to before it actually sends them there, for either analytics purposes or otherwise, and I'd trust the NYT devops less than Twitter's w.r.t. making sure things were fast.

Incompetence before malice, etc...

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Re:Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains by thereare5lights on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @01:27AM (#37130521)
It's not.

If you use wget, you see that the delay happens during the first hop with t.co

It also happens with threads.net, instagram, facebook, blueskyweb.xyz

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