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This is basically what Twitter does with its "cards" (Flic.kr links remain but the card shows the image). The only issue so far is if someone uses IFTTT or similar to auto- post Flickr photos. IFTTT puts the Flickr URL in *and* uploads the photo to Twitter, which results in us seeing it twice.
This compromise means we don't see different images when a user links to one image and uploads a different one (we only see the upload) BUT it means that we don't get duplicate images (which are common when a user has used something like IFTT to auto-post photos from Flickr - it uploads the image AND links to it on Flickr, so we could end up loading it twice because of our 3rd part image support)
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Here's my proposed fix for bug #457. It only removes Twitter links (because that's what Twitter does) and it prioritises Twitter media over external links and only loads 3rd party images if there is no Twitter media (because that's what Twitter does - see https://twitter.com/YorksWildlife/status/693132495122989056, which links to Flickr but has a Twitter image, not a Flickr card).
I think this balances the problem of removing URLs from the middle of tweets (especially when Flickr images are web pages with comments, etc) against the problem of duplicating images, while still loading plenty of media.