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by account-5 1537 days ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a web developer nor a journalist/blogger, whatever.

My non-expert, likely useless, take on this:

Don't use Twitter's technology. If you're interested in quoting a tweet to create a public take a screenshot, copy of the text, quote it and provide a link. Simple.

If part of your post links, or portals, to another site you don't control it's not part of your blog/post/site. Complaining when remote content changes is pointless. You're not capturing what was when you link to remote content managed by someone else you're capturing something live, it's not a public record. It isn't quoting anything.

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The key is that they're not linking remote content – they copied the content of the tweets into their websites' code, and then used Twitter's JS to render it. I.e., it used to be a purely stylistic change.

All of a sudden, this very inert code has changed, without warning, to actually edit any websites using it to delete the text that they put there. I think many would consider this malware-adjacent, if it wasn't from such a large company.