Twitter links not loading - a paranoic trick

If you use Twitter and sometimes prefer to copy links to articles and open them in private browser windows instead of in the window where you currently run Twitter, you may have noticed that some links never open.

I don't know why this happens. There may be some check where the link originates from, or the change of environment could make the systems confused. That doesn't really matter. What matters is that...

There is a fix:

1. Copy the link to the tweet itself. (Not the link inside the Tweet.) You can do this for example by using the V-like menu icon in the top right of the Tweet.
2. Open the private window.
3. Paste and go to the link. You will now have opened the Tweet in a window where you are not logged in.
4. Click on the link inside the Tweet. It is now likely to work.

It it still doesn't work, try pasting the link into a completely different browser. I have seen some links that won't open in Firefox, even though they open in an equally private window in Chrome.

(Some notes on why you may want to do this in certain cases: when you click on a link, the receiving URL will get the data of the browser session. If it is a link to Youtube, and you are signed in to google, Youtube may add this to your video history and recommend similar videos. If it is a link to a newspaper you subscribe to, the newspaper will learn that you are interested in this particular article, which you have no interest in at all, as you just get it for a friend. And you may simply want to avoid all the cookies each and every website now clutters your hard disk with. You may also have a touch of paranoia and want to limit any traceable internet activity. No matter which reason, the fix works.)