Not wanting to beat a dead horse, but.... if I copy the URL from the real Quodverum twatter, and delete that underscore at the end, I still go to the bogus Russian site. Totally strange. I can only assume @jackhole is doing this since he banned all the guys who post on Quod Verum.
but.... if I copy the URL from the real Quodverum twatter, and delete that underscore at the end, I still go to the bogus Russian site.
Right. Because they are two different Twitter accounts. The underscore at the end is what differentiates the two accounts and tells your browser which account to go to. For example, I could make a twitter account as quod_verum, with the underscore in the middle, and your browser would take you to this totally separate third account. Then if you removed the underscore in the middle, you'd end up at the Russian account.
I can only assume @jackhole is doing this since he banned all the guys who post on Quod Verum.
In this case, Jack and twitter aren't the culprits. It's the Free Republic programming and how it reads the URLs that's at fault. FR is not reading the underscore as part of the URL. It ignores the underscore at the end and reads it as only quodverum (without the underscore) which is the Russian account.
And when you paste the URL of a specific tweet of the real Quodverum, like you did in post
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https://twitter.com/Quodverum_/status/1077317601901117441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
the FR programming does recognize the character that is now at the end of the URL (the last letter, w) and links to the correct tweet.
AND I think I just hit on the workaround. :) In an URL, a / (slash) is an endmark (sorry, I don't know what the technical HTML term is, LOL) in an URL. I think if you put a / after the underscore, then FR will read the entire URL, including the underscore, and make it a link. I can't try it in this post because I've already used a lot of HTML in it. I will try it in another post, just copy/paste the real Quodverum twitter account, and see if FR reads it correctly.
Just copying and pasting the real QV twitter account and putting the / after the underscore, without using any HTML.
https://twitter.com/Quodverum_/
Yay, it works in Preview! Here’s hoping it works in the actual post. :)