also @Andros, I see that if I open that URL on my browser, I see weird characters in the .txt file: description = 🏗 Perhaps your nginx server is missing a Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header? https://serverfault.com/a/975289

In timeline it looks OK however, I think it's relying on

The file must be encoded with UTF-8 of the original spec: https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/twtxtfile.html