If you recently clicked a link shared by The New York Times on X (formerly Twitter), you might have noticed that the page took a little longer to load than you would have expected.
According to a post on Hacker News, the delay was put in place for The New York Times on August 4th.
The user said that the delays appeared to involve Twitter’s t.co link shortener and also affected Meta’s Threads.
The list of affected sites included social media competitors to X (Meta, Bluesky, Substack) and news organizations that X owner Elon Musk has criticized, which could indicate that these delays were being implemented on a select basis.
“This is one of those things that seems too crazy to be true, even for Twitter, until you see it inexplicably take 5 seconds for Chrome to receive 650 bytes of data,” he wrote.
At the end of last year, there was also a short period during which X abruptly banned users from promoting their presence on competitors like Instagram and Mastodon.
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If you recently clicked a link shared by The New York Times on X (formerly Twitter), you might have noticed that the page took a little longer to load than you would have expected.
According to a post on Hacker News, the delay was put in place for The New York Times on August 4th.
The user said that the delays appeared to involve Twitter’s t.co link shortener and also affected Meta’s Threads.
The list of affected sites included social media competitors to X (Meta, Bluesky, Substack) and news organizations that X owner Elon Musk has criticized, which could indicate that these delays were being implemented on a select basis.
“This is one of those things that seems too crazy to be true, even for Twitter, until you see it inexplicably take 5 seconds for Chrome to receive 650 bytes of data,” he wrote.
At the end of last year, there was also a short period during which X abruptly banned users from promoting their presence on competitors like Instagram and Mastodon.
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