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Wonder if a case could be made that since public officials like the US President or other "official" government accounts post to Twitter, that everyone should be able to view all the (public) tweets of those accounts without requiring an account for the viewer. Perhaps that is already the case?
Note that a huge issue I see is that Twitter is used by a lot of governments for official announcements. Back when Twitter was open, using it for goverment communication was OK, like it is OK for governments to make public announcements on public TV. But imagine an important announcement is only made on a private TV channel! Even if that private TV channel were free, but you have to accept FAANG ToS, it’s still wrong…
Public money, public access, public infrastructure.
Hasn’t it been like that for 2-3 years at least?
Poking around, looks like a path to the search bar is Directory: https://twitter.com/i/directory/profiles
> Unfortunately twitter is going the direction of quora, pinterest, facebook, and medium Don’t forget Reddit. Reddit’s login pop-ups are more aggressive than Twitter’s for me. > Now you can perhaps read ten tweets or replies to a linked tweet without an account before the same thing occurs Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think any company is obligated to provide unlimited access for free without an account.…
I disagree. When Reddit, Quora, Medium, Twitter started, they have posed themselves as privately owned public spaces, much like Wikipedia. This was the 'social' contract they presented to users. They built their monopolies on top of the goodwill of users. I'm pretty sure that subject matter experts who wrote extremely long-winded and well-researched articles on Roman battle tactics, did not do so with the intent, tha…
I came up with these last night as I was irritated I couldn't just view the website.
Twitter employees who look here: Stop it, c'mon. Take your massive stacks of mony and do something more useful than locking users out of your platform to drive low-engagement signups.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me, it’s because I’m on my work machine. I don’t move my personal credentials to my work machine. (In fact, I moved over to my phone to write this comment.) We could discuss that aspect—sharing accounts on computers that don’t belong to me—but that’s why I’m often thwarted from reading content. I have the account, just not on me.
Juste create a new account every time
Are they making a bad business decision that is going to cost them dearly in the future? Maybe. But that's not a crime. If it is, lock me up and throw away the key.