# Tweets not embedding **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [June 14, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491 "2023-06-14T12:28:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/1 "2023-06-14T12:28:52Z")
Tweets from Twitter are no longer embedding in SDMB threads. Instead, the URL is displayed. e.g. [https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1668300888211849217](https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1668300888211849217) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/2 "2023-06-14T14:03:34Z")
I didn’t even know that they used to be embedded; I don’t remember having seen one. That said, I’m guessing it’s essentially the same issue as the bug/issue with YouTube videos? > [@Have links to YouTube been disabled?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-links-to-youtube-been-disabled/981958/170): > > I’ve seen a few links to this thread from other threads, but the information is a bit scattershot, so I think it’s worth summarizing. The bug occurs because Discourse now sees a YouTube preview–that is, the inline video as compared to a bare link–as a “media item”. We don’t allow media items on this site for cost reasons, but in this case it’s a bug because the video is hosted elsewhere. And this is new behavior. Discourse takes a few seconds to convert a bare link into a preview. That is t… ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/3 "2023-06-14T14:08:43Z")
Maybe. The issue started today. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/4 "2023-06-14T14:19:08Z")
Test [https://twitter.com/Saints/status/1668738415666315264](https://twitter.com/Saints/status/1668738415666315264) ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/5 "2023-06-14T14:20:19Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > That said, I’m guessing it’s essentially the same issue as the bug/issue with YouTube videos? If so … it’s not resolved in the same way. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/6 "2023-06-14T15:42:14Z")
testing … ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2023, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/7 "2023-06-14T17:13:26Z")
Given all the mad swirl and turmoil going on in Twitter, who’s to say the problem isn’t at their end? ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/8 "2023-06-15T01:48:37Z")
> A drunk man that looks like Putin just can't understand what is the point of hitting residential areas in Russia. Similarly, what is the point of placing troops in the residential areas? Why mass murder and loot in a foreign country? Why blow up Kakhovka Dam? What is the point of… [pic.twitter.com/B59ll5qM5i](https://t.co/B59ll5qM5i) > > — Dmitri (@wartranslated) [June 12, 2023](https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1668300888211849217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw) That’s using Twitter’s embed link. I don’t recall what it looked like before. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/9 "2023-06-15T04:44:31Z")
That was my first thought. For once this might not be on Discourse. ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/10 "2023-06-15T07:23:24Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > That was my first thought. For once this might not be on Discourse. Could be. > [@Ruken](#): > > That’s using Twitter’s embed link. I don’t recall what it looked like before. Normally, one just posts the Tweet URL and the Tweet will appear as it does on Twitter, including any images or videos. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2023, 7:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/11 "2023-06-15T07:25:23Z")
I wonder if it’s at all related to this. > **[Twitter shut off its free API and it's breaking a lot of apps | Engadget](https://www.engadget.com/twitter-shut-off-its-free-api-and-its-breaking-a-lot-of-apps-222011637.html)** > > Twitter has finally shut off its free API and, predictably, it’s breaking a lot of apps and websites.. That happened months ago so I don’t see a direct cause and effect, but maybe something expired. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2023, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491/12 "2023-06-16T02:52:26Z")
This is happening on another board I read that is also on the Discourse platform. It started the same day.