Author: Ben Grubb
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How I fixed Twitter/X link previews not working with Cloudflare (It was pseudo IPv4)
For many months, I had a deeply annoying problem: links from my website simply would not reliably generate previews on Twitter/X. No headline.No image.Just a bare URL. This was happening only on Twitter/X. Facebook, LinkedIn, Slack, WhatsApp – all fine. Twitter/X alone refused to play ball. If you are running your site behind Cloudflare, here…
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How to see the exact time an Instagram post was published (Chrome extension)
Last updated: May 1, 2026 Instagram shows when a post was shared using relative timestamps such as “1h”, “2d” or “1w”. It does not display the exact publication time in its standard interface. For journalists, researchers, social media managers and anyone needing to verify when something was posted, this can be a problem. Relative timestamps…
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‘I’m very very emotionally drained right now’: Beauty YouTuber James Charles reveals struggle with fame
Online teenage megastar James Charles is “emotionally drained”, pouring his heart out to me about what it’s like being the centre of attention amid multiple scandals. “You can’t make everybody happy, which is something that I had to come to terms with, but it sucks coming to terms with it. Not going to lie,” he…
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Where did all of Australia’s technology journalists go? Hint: mostly into public relations
It’s often joked among the remaining technology journalists in Australia that the ratio of technology public relations (PR) professionals to journalists is wildly unbalanced, with PR professionals far outnumbering journalists. “Public relations professionals?”, I hear some of you ask who aren’t in media circles. They’re the people who “spin” (they’d say “create”) stories about technology…