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

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Post by hunta2097 »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #25
throwa_acnt_223 wrote: post #17

You 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

god bless nitter.net

Nitter is also broken right now. I'm sure they'll work around it.

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

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Post by Balgair »

Well, Donny's long awaited come-back to twitter may be longer delayed then.

I can't see this decision standing. The traffic drop is going to be immense. Advertisers, already wary, will not like it yet again.

Plus, a long weekend in the US is starting. Lots of leisure time to figure out alternatives.

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

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Post by upon_drumhead »

SCdF wrote: post #66
xNeil wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While I have been and still am a fark user, I don’t know that it’s ever been widely relevant.

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

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Post by snissn »

robotblake wrote: post #56

I 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…

ty!!!!

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

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

wl wrote: post #70
williamvds wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Weird, mine have updated since 3hrs ago.

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

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #20
stOneskull wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Un/fortunately, they didn’t storm Moscow. It was rather interesting to see them advance, however. Though whether this was a distraction to hide something else (say, “banishing” a PMC closer to the border) or a genuine coup has yet to be seen.

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

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Post by tourmalinetaco »

Balgair wrote: post #73

Well, Donny's long awaited come-back to twitter may be longer delayed then. I can't see this decision standing. The traffic drop is going to be immense. Advertisers, already wary, will not like it yet again. Plus, a long weekend in the US is starting. Lots of leisure time to figure out alternatives.

Hasn’t Trump completely abandoned Twitter, and very much prefers his de-federated Mastodon instance? I’d say you can’t put an indefinite delay on for any longer than, well, indefinite.

That aside, you’re absolutely right. It’ll be interesting to see why Elon would hide away his money sink, especially when they made such a big hoopla about removing this very thing from the beginning.

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