How many people are actually linking to valid JSFiddle links from Twitter? This might have just been a math decision (X% malware > x% good links).
I have my own problems with Twitter, but a social media site with a LOT of non-technical users blocking access to a site specifically designed to run anonymous code in their browser doesn't make me want to break out my pitchfork ...
I think the math would then lead to only big sites being "good enough" to pass the twitter test as to who gets a whole domain filtered or not, and if you're running a site that someone does a bad thing on ... so much for anyone linking to you anymore on Twitter.
Agreed. I just think this isn’t an example, or at least not an example of the worst of it.
I can’t think of any legitimate reason for my cousins who are on Twitter would want to go to JSFiddle. I’m ok with Twitter taking this stance. I’m not ok with many of the other policies.
That’s not entirely my point. The whole point of JSFiddle (which I love) is at odds with the bulk of the demographic of Twitter. If your content sharing site inadvertently has malware you can remove it, JSFiddle will always be risky.
The bulk of the people I follow on Twitter would have no clue what it was or how to even begin to understand it.
It shouldn't be twitters job to clean up after jsfiddle, who don't seem to put any effort whatsoever into mitigating malicious code beings shared on their site.
Doesn't really take much for a code sharing site to demand registration before you share code and to have a report button.
I have my own problems with Twitter, but a social media site with a LOT of non-technical users blocking access to a site specifically designed to run anonymous code in their browser doesn't make me want to break out my pitchfork ...