It seems Musk is unhappy with Zuckerberg and certain publishers, as his X platform is now delaying redirects to Meta platforms and select news websites.
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is accused of deliberately prolonging the time it takes for links to redirect to rival platforms and some news outlets that Elon Musk is not a fan of. First reported on YCombinator and later allegedly verified by The , all links that lead from X to major competitors now routinely take around five seconds. Threads, the Twitter copycat by Meta that was released this summer and quickly amassed millions of followers, is an obvious target of X’s throttling.
But it appears that Musk has issues with other Meta platforms, too, as link redirects using the «t.co» format take roughly five seconds if the destination is Facebook or Instagram, as well. That may be due in part to Musk’s over-the-top reaction to Zuckerberg moving on from the proposed cage fight between the two. Meta isn’t the only subject of Musk’s latest move, though, as X is also seemingly throttling BlueSky, a rival platform backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, who once considered Musk the «singular solution» to Twitter’s problems.
