X, which was formerly known as Twitter until its recent rebranding, is having a problem displaying old posts that came with images attached or any hyperlinks converted through Twitter’s built-in URL shortener. It’s unclear when the problem started, but it was highlighted on Saturday afternoon in a post by Tom Coates, and a Brazilian vtuber, @DaniloTakagi, had pointed it out a couple of days earlier.
t.co being a single choke point for old twitter links is exactly the scary part. i use https://cryptly.link/HZpzV6sYysc1 sometimes for stuff i don’t want tracked, but honestly the bigger lesson is to keep the real URL somewhere you control too.