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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

#21
post #7

Login 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.

Nitter mirrors usually offer RSS feeds (e.g. //rss) which is how I've been keeping up with a few accounts for years now.

We'll see how long the feeds continue working for.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#22

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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.

> AskJeeves

dogpile too

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#23
Looks like it occurs in private windows as well. In the past, twitter set cookies to distinguish between visitors who never had an account, and visitors who have an account but are logged out. Publicly visible posts were displayed to no-account visitors, but blocked from logged-out visitors.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#24

Earlier 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

I stopped using Twitter months ago. Stopped Tweeting and only visit the site if I need to follow a link. I never announced it. There was a trend of high profile Tweeters announcing their departure, and some may well have relapsed (I don't keep track) but it would be interesting to see how many people just stopped bothering with the site and all its drama.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#27
post #24

Earlier 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

I stopped using Twitter months ago. Stopped Tweeting and only visit the site if I need to follow a link. I never announced it. There was a trend of high profile Tweeters announcing their departure, and some may well have relapsed (I don't keep track) but it would be interesting to see how many people just stopped bothering with the site and all its drama.

you're announcing it to me right now, must I quote Aristotle again?

if twitter is dead to you, let it rot and die in the corner. free yourself from caring about its outcomes

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#29
post #7

Login 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 :(

Users will remain, they will just represent a much more narrow slice of society than before. They will be smaller in number and Twitter itself will be less of an 'approved' service — I feel like we already see less promotion of it on TV and on news sites.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

#30
This is a hard stretch. That login wall is easily dismissible. Haven't come across any tweet, even content that could be considered "premium" like Tucker's long form video commentaries, that is not available behind the login wall.

EDIT: I was wrong. This was the behavior not so long ago, seems like any link now redirects to homepage.

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