It still sends traffic to their site because you're still pulling the tweet from them to load into this page. All that content is still coming from their servers and still helps their numbers.
Take a screenshot and post that instead. Then they only get your first visit, and not the thousands of people who you want to show the image to who load the page here which loads the original tweet from Twitter's servers.
Stop posting shitbird links
If you must, post a screen grab. but even then. Stop giving them traffic.
Just click the thumbnail and it won't make you visit
It still sends traffic to their site because you're still pulling the tweet from them to load into this page. All that content is still coming from their servers and still helps their numbers.
Take a screenshot and post that instead. Then they only get your first visit, and not the thousands of people who you want to show the image to who load the page here which loads the original tweet from Twitter's servers.