Jul 12, 2023 11:14:00

Twitter reportedly blocks links to Threads

On July 6th, 2023, Meta released

Threads , a text-based social network that rivals Twitter. Even before the advent of Threads, Twitter has repeatedly made improvements such as setting a limit on the number of tweets viewed per day and forcibly migrating TweetDeck to a new design , but tweets containing links to Threads are newly displayed in search results. It has become clear that it is no longer

Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/twitter-blocks-links-to-rival-threads-while-ceo-downplays-reports-of-traffic-decline/

Engineer Andy Baio searched for ``url:threads.net'' using the ``url:'' operator available on Twitter to find tweets containing links to Twitter's competing service, Threads. Did. However, it is clear that tweets are not displayed in search results.

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On Twitter, it has been pointed out by others other than Mr. Bio that tweets containing links to Threads are no longer displayed from search results.

It's unclear when Twitter started blocking tweets containing links to Threads, but this is the first time Twitter has blocked links to competitors since Elon Musk acquired Twitter. not.

Twitter makes it impossible to retweet some tweets or displays a warning that it is 'unsafe' to shut out competing services-GIGAZINE

However, according to Mr. Bio, instead of 'url: threads.net', if you enclose the word after 'url:' in periods and search with 'url: 'threads net'' without dots, you can avoid the block and go to Threads can display the link of By adding 'filter: follows' to this, it is possible to check tweets containing links to Threads posted by accounts followed by your Twitter account.

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It has been pointed out that there is a bug that when searching using 'url:' on Twitter, the domain ' .net' is not displayed. Even if you search, Twitter will display 'No results found'.

In addition, the analysis company Similarweb has released data that Twitter traffic decreased by 5% (compared to the previous week) in two days from the start of Threads service. In addition, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince pointed out that Twitter traffic decreased with the introduction of Threads based on Cloudflare's DNS ranking.

Cloudflare CEO testifies to Twitter traffic decline - GIGAZINE

In response to these reports, Twitter CEO Linda Yaccarino said, ``Don't leave Twitter to use Threads. There is only one, do you know? I know, 'he argued that the number of Twitter users is steadily increasing.

Don't want to leave you hanging by a thread… but Twitter, you really outdid yourselves! Last week we had our largest usage day since February. There's only ONE Twitter.

— Linda Yaccarino (@lindayacc) July 10, 2023

Overseas media TechCrunch pointed out, 'Threads is off to a good start by leveraging Instagram's user base to quickly expand the number of users, but the long-term future of this app is unclear.'

In fact, when Twitter was acquired by Elon Musk, the number of users of Mastodon, which was regarded as a rival of Twitter, surged, but the number of active users increased from 2.5 million at its peak to July 2023. It has fallen to 1.9 million and has not succeeded in replacing Twitter.

The number of active users of Mastodon has reached 2.5 million, it turns out that the number of people fleeing Elon Mask's Twitter is increasing - GIGAZINE