# 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tweets-not-embedding/985491)._