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Hey Wolfie, so sorry to bother you during this very busy election season. There is a bit of a problem with the recent post of Flep’s Twitter Travels
https://wqth.wordpress.com/2020/11/02/fleps-twitter-travels-4/
Apparently some people can’t actually see the tweets, just the URLs. Do you know a fix for this? Should I break the post down into smaller chunks?
If you discover a way to show the tweets please let me know so that I can do the fixing & not waste your time further. Thanks for your help.
God Bless! Thanks again for letting me part of the (occasional) Q-Tree authorship collective 🙂
Several people have said they only see the URL’s, but apparently at least the twitter links work!
Exactly. If it’s just text, or text and a picture, you CAN pre-load those to WordPress using PARAGRAPH and IMAGE blocks. But video is very tricky, and I think a twitter link is likely the best.
OK I’m almost done w/ Flep’s media tab post so I may just let it stand. Thanks for your answers
As far as I know there is nothing that you can do. I believe it’s a problem with the Twitter plugin which is literally DESIGNED BY TWITTER to “accidentally” screw up tweets RIGHT NOW.
The only fix IMO which guarantees that people can see stuff is to DISSECT TWEETS and post the pieces. This will work for tweets with PICTURES but not with VIDEOS.
Thus, instead of a URL, you post THE ACTUAL TEXT using a text block and the URL of THE PICTURE using an image block.
If there is a video, you’re screwed, unless you know how to download videos, re-host them, and use THAT URL (e.g., on BitChute), or find the video elsewhere and post THAT URL as an embed block.
Howver, it’s easier and simpler to just include the Twitter URL with a dot after it for the video, so people have to see it on Twitter.
It’s very nasty. Sorry I can’t give you a nice answer. Twitter is no longer our friend.
“Twitter is no longer our friend.” Were they ever? Thanks for the info. At least it wasn’t my mess up, so for that I’m thankful 🙂