Posters at Hacker News discovered this: Twitter is purposefully making some links slow. Anything going to New York Times (or other webpages that Elon Musk doesn’t like) has a 5-second delay right now.
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Washington Post confirms the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/15/twitter-x-links-delayed/
HN and Twitter should both disappear.