[thunderbong]

Isn't this the way the internet is supposed to work? If I link to a page and the page is removed, it'll not show, right? Same thing if I were to add that page as an iframe on my site.

So, IMHO, the title and the post doesn't make any sense. Twitter isn't editing anyone's site. You have chosen to embed some content of Twitter on yours and it is perfectly fine if they chose to remove it.

[mpettitt]

If you link to a page, whatever text you put in as the body of the link will remain. The link itself won't go anywhere, but the content you have added to it will remain. In this case, it's as if the link text also vanished when the target page vanishes.

That would be an interesting solution to link rot, admittedly - lots of older pages which are just empty lists formerly containing links to now defunct websites!

[saagarjha]

Right, but it was not added as an iframe, it was added with the actual content along with the script. So it's kind of like the iframe reaching out and deleting the surrounding conversation about that link once the page goes offline, if iframes could do such a thing.

[scim-knox-twox]

> Isn't this the way the internet is supposed to work? If I link to a page and the page is removed, it'll not show, right? Same thing if I were to add that page as an iframe on my site.

But the link still will be on your site.