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Twitter axes playable Internet Archive embeds

The dream has died: Twitter has disabled Internet Archive game embeds.

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Remember how for a few days you could tweet a link to an a game on the Internet Archive and it was playable direct from that tweet?

Well, Twitter has cancelled that. All those tweets now just show links.

GamesIndustry suspects it has something to do with Twitter's terms of service:

"Do not build end-to-end interactive experiences inside the video or audio player unrelated to Player Card content, such as the following: purchasing, gaming, polling, messaging, and data entry."

Oh. Yeah. That sure sounds like what the Internet Archive did. And it was great.

Thanks, Kotaku.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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