Elon Musk Reportedly Wants to Start Charging for Embedding Tweets

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Most Twitter users don't give a second thought to embedding tweets from influencers, celebrities, news outlets, and other residents of the hugely popular social media platform, but that could be set to change following its recent acquisition by Elon Musk.

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If you want a sure-fire way to kill a platform, I would think this is a good Chapter 1.
 
I mean you have to admit it might stop the trash buzfeed articles that are nothing but repeating what is said with a tweet then embedding the same tweet below it.
 
Zarathustra said:
That's pretty cool. Hadn't seen it before (even if it didn't work for me) My unzip program rejected the file.
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The standard "unzip" utility installed on Linux distros does indeed choke on the file. I managed to extract the file with 7z (v16.02) and rar (v5.5) from Debian's packages of p7zip-full and rar (the "non-free" rar, though I don't know whether that matters).

It's interesting as a proof-of-concept, but I recommend cheating if you want the prize inside: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 :)
 
Tempest said:
The standard "unzip" utility installed on Linux distros does indeed choke on the file. I managed to extract the file with 7z (v16.02) and rar (v5.5) from Debian's packages of p7zip-full and rar (the "non-free" rar, though I don't know whether that matters).

It's interesting as a proof-of-concept, but I recommend cheating if you want the prize inside: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/100 :)
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Yeah, I wound up unzipping it with the Gnome archive Manager and then unrared the files, just to test the concept.

I have no need for Shakespeare's collected works, but if I did, I have better ways of getting them :p
 
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