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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by JohnFen »

warmwaffles wrote: post #19
agluszak wrote: post #17

Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology

[x] doubt Putting the internet in the hands of the Government wouldn't fair much better.

The internet started in the hands of the government.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by celsoazevedo »

denysvitali wrote: post #15
celsoazevedo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Screenshot: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/2023/twitter.png

I was confused at first on why a random dude posted a link to a screenshot hosted on Celso Azevedo's website (the Google Camera port index creator). Then I realized... hello there! (:

Hey! Yep, that's me.

I was going to host the screenshot on imgur, but I'm not sure if we can trust them anymore...

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Post by phone8675309 »

warmwaffles wrote: post #19
agluszak wrote: post #17

Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology

[x] doubt Putting the internet in the hands of the Government wouldn't fair much better.

False dichotomy - there are more options for Internet control than purely private and purely government.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by agluszak »

warmwaffles wrote: post #19
agluszak wrote: post #17

Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst thing that ever happened to technology

[x] doubt Putting the internet in the hands of the Government wouldn't fair much better.

That's a false dichotomy. Government-regulated doesn't mean government-run. I wish we had laws in place that would prevent Facebook/Apple/Google/Twitter monopolies/walled gardens from happening

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by neltnerb »

saurik wrote: post #23
hayd wrote: post #16

Noticed this morning that nitter was down and twitter made tweets completely unavailable until you're logged in. Very annoying. I wonder what happened to embedded tweets?

(Embedded tweets also stopped working.)

And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" articles at this point.

Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured it was good archival practice to rely on the Twitter API in providing context.

For years, if I didn't enable twitter's javascript, news articles are missing images and quotes, obviously so. It's embarrassing, I honestly don't know how they recover from this, I don't know why they kept relying on Twitter embedding when screenshots and copy/paste work better and don't break.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by rlpb »

jamesgreenleaf wrote: post #7

Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

Presumably this is because I have to download an entire JavaScript app in order to view 280 bytes of tweet.
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