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You can just replace x.com with nitter.net, though their bandwidth sucks for media playback.

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Harry Potter would have posted the original video to YouTube instead. It seems like a tragic irony, and perhaps a sign of danger, that OP posted the demo video to the website of He Who Should Not Be Named. Why? Why?!

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Because Twitter posts consisting of YouTube links die quickly. It’s very obvious once you have a few thousand followers.

Your option is basically either upload to twitter, or put the YouTube link at the end just before a screenshot. Or both a video and a YouTube link, I suppose.

If you trigger their YouTube embed, it seems like it gets penalized quite harshly. I’ve seen other people agree with the sentiment.

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Twitter posts never die if you never post to Twitter in the first place.

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Just don't use a Twitter post as your demo video in the GitHub readme. I don't care what someone does on Twitter - I never go there. But you can just embed a .gif or .webm in your readme or link to YouTube there.

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The poster to x apparently has a bsky account also — I wish they would cross post.

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or xcancel.com

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that was my first move, but i got an infinite redirect

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could be regional cuz that don't happen in the US. they play right away regardless of log in status

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That's simply not true.

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I'm in the US and twitter videos don't play for me. I see what looks like a video control when I view the post, when I click it, it throws up a modal log in/sign in dialog. No way to view the video while logged out.

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They used to. Not anymore.

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