So a return to the status quo then?
All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
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Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#12Hmm, I wonder if this is just an experiment, a bug, or something permanent. Posting twitter links to places like HN will be a no-no, since a good portion of the people can't view the content. Will that stop people from using Twitter to inform?
Posting Twitter links anywhere should've been a no-no long time ago with the login popups. Before nitter I just skipped them entirely.
Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#13Nitter is still working, although searching for users seems to have stopped working you can still use the tweet search tab or manually type a twitter username on the end of the URL.
List of nitter instances:
https://github.com/xnaas/nitter-instances
They unpredictably say "This nitter instance has been rate limited", you can try a few from the above list to find one that is getting less traffic.
Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#14Login wall for me. I'll give it a day and then delete the dozen or so remaining twitter accounts I had bookmarked and checked in occasionally. I did delete my account a few months before Elon took over, guess we are watching its final days.
It isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(
Very few sites die entirely. Usenet, BBS, AOL, nethack.alt.org, AskJeeves, MySpace, and Facebook all still exist. That doesn’t mean they remain culturally relevant.
Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#15Hmm, I wonder if this is just an experiment, a bug, or something permanent. Posting twitter links to places like HN will be a no-no, since a good portion of the people can't view the content. Will that stop people from using Twitter to inform?
Unfortunately, many things posted to HN are not on the Internet. Paywalled links, links to articles where the publisher does the idiotic IP-based regionalization and denies access to those not in his "region", etc.
I believe HN should make a rule that only links to things on the Internet are allowed. If it's not readable by anyone with an IP address, it shouldn't be on HN.
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#16Bad move on Elon's part. Many people deleted their accounts when he took over, but some portion of them are still "addicted" to twitter and browse it anonymously. Thus still generating views and revenue for the company. Once the login wall comes up, most of them are leaving for good, as their egos will not allow them to create another account.
Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#17You can use this opensource service to at least read other people's tweets:
https://nitter.net/ https://nitter.net/about
See an example: https://nitter.net/elonmusk
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
It isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(
yeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up. "this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably
twitter's a bit of fun. i'm loving this wrestling match hype between zuck and musk.
Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
#19Bad move on Elon's part. Many people deleted their accounts when he took over, but some portion of them are still "addicted" to twitter and browse it anonymously. Thus still generating views and revenue for the company. Once the login wall comes up, most of them are leaving for good, as their egos will not allow them to create another account.
I hope you realize the login wall was something that came up before musk aquired twitter. one of the first things he did was remove it.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up. "this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably
twitter's a bit of fun. i'm loving this wrestling match hype between zuck and musk.
and watching wagnerPMC storm moscow was no snoozefest