Interesting opportunity for TikTok (which [currently] allows non-logged-in access) to start allowing text posts.
All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today
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#92Should 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.
> Not everything has to be illegal just because you’re annoyed by it.
No, some things should be illegal because they're public officials using semi-private communications channels for public communications in the course of their work, that the public won't have access to without agreeing to a TOS with that private company.
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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.
There's a nitter fork (in the sense of 'PRs not merged yet') that uses the admin's burner accounts to retrieve tweets, and it still works. But I think it hits rate limits fairly often.
edit: Well, worked. Seems down right now, possibly because it was the only instance that still worked.
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#94Login 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.
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#95You 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
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> Not everything has to be illegal just because you’re annoyed by it. No, some things should be illegal because they're public officials using semi-private communications channels for public communications in the course of their work, that the public won't have access to without agreeing to a TOS with that private company.
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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.
Yeah Nitter is now completely dead unfortunately.
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#100This 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…
it really hasn't.