Ah! That explains the cruft I've seen today with the mess of truncated tweets with links to themselves (twitter.com/i/web/status/…) at the end of the tweet text

Ah! That explains the cruft I've seen today with the mess of truncated tweets with links to themselves (twitter.com/i/web/status/…) at the end of the tweet text. (If you use a third-party client, you'll see this duct-tape in the tweets.)