Twitter change leaves huge gaps in websites

An example of the blank box that's now shown. | Screenshot: Twitter

Twitter has made a small but significant change to how deleted tweets are shown when they're embedded in third-party websites. Since at least the end of March the social media network has started showing a blank box on external sites when an embedded tweet has been deleted. The change was detailed in a blog post from Kevin Marks.

It's a big change from how Twitter used to handle deleted-yet-embedded tweets, when it would preserve the original unformatted text. With this recent change, that text is now gone, leaving a hole inside any story that embedded it.

Screenshot: Web Archive How deleted embedded tweets used to display. Screenshot: The Verge How they display now.

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