![]() ![]() The new owner’s insistence that the company might need to declare bankruptcy, while he continues to drive advertisers away in droves, and comes up with “subscription” ideas that don’t seem poised to move the needle very far (not to mention firing a huge percentage of the workforce without a clear understanding of who was needed to keep the site running) all contribute to this uncertainty. However, the erratic and unpredictable situation with Twitter right now is proving to be too risky to continue trusting that embedded tweets will survive. For years, we used Docstoc to embed legal filings and other documents, and that disappeared. We’ve had plenty of old embedded content disappear around here. There’s always a risk with embedding anything that the service you’re using will disappear. Though Twitter’s embed feature had a somewhat graceful failstate, where deleted tweets would still show the missing text. This was always somewhat risky for a few reasons, including that people could (and often did) delete tweets. Historically, Techdirt would often embed tweets using the embed feature from Twitter. ![]() I sent this notice around internally here at Techdirt, but figured it might be useful to state this publicly. Tue, Nov 15th 2022 10:58am - Mike Masnick
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