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

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Post by rsynnott »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #9
cutemoron wrote: post #8

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

With the notable exception of Digg, big-bang deaths are rather rare for social networks (and even Digg's wasn't _quite_ as big-bang as people tend to remember); they drift slowly into obscurity. While there might be a triggering factor that could be remembered as the cause of the decline, it's generally hard to pinpoint a time of death.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

zrfland wrote: post #51

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.

I can't see why it wouldn't be _legal_, but it would certainly seem less _desirable_ for the politicians concerned.

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

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Post by spiffytech »

gizzlon wrote: post #4

Hmm, 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?

> Hmm, I wonder if this is just an experiment, a bug, or something permanent.

Twitter appointed a new CEO earlier this month. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the new policy from the new leader.

Ars Technica ran a story yesterday detailing her plans, which include full-screen video ads with sound.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/linda-yaccarinos...

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

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Post by baking »

oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #41
thexumaker wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep it used to be you could view individual tweets but nothing else. Elon came in removed it and made everything free to view. A couple months ago I noticed they went back to the old system. And now you can't even view individual tweets. Embedded tweets still work I guess

I think there must have been some kind of nuance beyond that, at some point. The number of people claiming that they couldn't view twitter links — and I'm sure this started pre-Elon — suggests to me that, like someone else has mentioned, there might have been different behaviour for 'anonymous' vs. 'not-logged-in' viewers.

The main difference to me was that I could see the "trending" tweets and additional "recommended" tweets after the comments on the one that I was reading. That started post Elon. There was also the login popup that was trivial to X out that seemed to appear more frequently after Elon took over.

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

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Post by matricaria »

zrfland wrote: post #51

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.

Not everything has to be illegal just because you’re annoyed by it.

Maybe contact the politicians you’re interested in and make them aware of the problem. Get them to swap to Mastodon or even better, a blog/website.

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

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Post by SCdF »

xNeil wrote: post #59
TomK32 wrote: 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.

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.

When people talk about Twitter dying, they are talking about its relevance. No one means "Twitter.com will redirect to a domain squatter".

E.g, despite it being dead since the redesign in 2010, you can still go to digg.com right now, create an account and all. Fark.com still exists. Slashdot still exists. None of these sites are relevant anymore though.

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

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Post by senttoschool »

ciroduran wrote: post #42

This 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.

I wonder if recent Reddit/Twitter events might have finally given blockchain a real problem to solve.

The problem is centralized entities can take away access to data you generated at anytime. They can also ban you for whatever reason they want. So if your livelihood depends on these services, it can cause a huge disruption.

If Reddit/Twitter's data is stored on a blockchain, then anyone can build a client to access that data and Twitter would essentially have much less power.

The problem I see is that blockchains are too slow, and too expensive for mass products like Reddit and Twitter. Heck, I'm sure it's already a huge challenge for centralized databases to have as much data as Twitter/Reddit - let alone a decentralized one. Maybe at some point, we'll have a quantum computer breakthrough and blockchains performance is solved for use cases like this.

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

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Post by wl »

williamvds wrote: post #21
TomK32 wrote: 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.

Those stopped working for me last night.
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