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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

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Post by _djo_ »

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 pre-Musk behaviour was fairly straightforward to my recollection: All logged out accounts could view a single tweet and some percentage of the replies. They could also view a profile but, similarly, scrolling down a certain number of tweets triggered the modal.

It was a good compromise.

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

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Post by jacobolus »

Euphorbium wrote: post #58

Reddit 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.

For now you can still use old.reddit.com.

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

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Post by mvdtnz »

senttoschool wrote: post #67
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…

What if I want to delete one of my own tweets? I do this regularly.

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

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Post by rsynnott »

Baffling decision. The fact that tweets were, by default, essentially public and easily linkable was a big differentiator between Twitter and other social networks (particularly Facebook) and made them very attractive for things like news sites to link, vs, say, Facebook posts.

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

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Post by progval »

senttoschool wrote: post #67
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…

People can archive data from Reddit/Twitter, and Bitcoin/Ethereum... nodes can prune old blocks and stop serving them.

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

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

senttoschool wrote: post #67
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…

When people say "blockchains are a solution in search of a problem" they aren't kidding huh? We already have decentralized Twitter, it's called Mastodon (we have more of those as well).

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

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Post by 3cats-in-a-coat »

hunta2097 wrote: post #72
DennisAleynikov wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

god bless nitter.net

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

There's no trivial way to work around it.

Without API and without web access, where are you going to read the tweets from?

The only option left is unofficial API stubs, which essentially scrape the web requests, but those also will require a login, so the high activity will be easy to spot and block by Twitter.

Unless they have a whole network of accounts. That'd work but it's work to do.

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

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Post by dawnerd »

tourmalinetaco wrote: post #76
wl wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those stopped working for me last night.

Weird, mine have updated since 3hrs ago.

nitter is having all kinds of issues. My personal instance decided to go into a restart loop and I had to kill it.

rsshub still seems to work.

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