Should it be legal for politicians and institutions to post in a walled garden?
Of course this could be Musk trolling us for 24 hours to increase engagement and then revert the decision, leading to even more engagement.
All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
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#53I suspect that this is going to deter news sites from using tweets in articles. Imo this is probably a good thing, but what twitter thinks it well get out of this isn't clear to me.
I've recently noticed a few places screen-grabbing tweets rather than embedding them. Presumably for this reason.
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#54So a return to the status quo then?
I don't remember the ability to view any individual tweet being locked behind a login screen before - timeline scrolling yes, but not this. This is a new approach.
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#55This effectively breaks 15 years of links to tweets posted all over the Internet. Just another reason to keep the web open. This takes Twitter to the same level as Facebook, a website that only lives of its internal posts, where no young people open accounts, and where eventually the only ones who post are the ones who opened an account in its time.
It's already having some effects on my googling, just like the reddit blackout.
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#56I still have a few accounts I glance at from time to time. Hockey, Game Devs, Artists, etc. who haven't migrated away despite everything, so this is kinda obnoxious.
I created some Redirector (https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/) rules to redirect Tweet and Twitter Profile URLs to their HTML embed equivalents.
Should be able to just import the rules and it seems to work alright with some caveats.
* I have no idea if this will continue to function.
* I've only tested some random links from my Discord and Slack groups.
* Profile links only show the most recent 20 tweets.
* Tweets will show quote-tweets, but no replies (though maybe that's a good thing).
* Obviously won't work for mobile.
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#57I have no problem with this as I don't use the twitter.
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#58Reddit is essentially the same. Default ordering of comments is “best”. That means that many comments are not displayed at all. You need to log in to be able to change that. I only noticed that after deleting my account.
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#59Login 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.
What in the world gives you the impression Twitter is in its final days? Naysayers have been saying Twitter fill fail any day now for about 8 or 9 months now.
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#60Login 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 :(
Well, depends how you're defining 'final', really. Like, one way of looking at it is that Livejournal hasn't had its final day yet; there are still people on Livejournal. Another is that it had its final day in 2006 or so; from that point on (at least in the English-speaking world; I think it stayed relevant in Russia for longer) it was kind of a legacy semi-zombie social network.
Twitter's whole thing is its outsized cultural relevance for a rather small user base. If that goes, well, arguably, it's had its final day. This particular change seems like it might go a long way towards ending its relevance; an awful lot of people used twitter only via clicking links from news articles etc, and never actually had an account.