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Do you still take this man at his word, after all he's done?
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Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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#442It always irked me that public institutions embraced Twitter as a primary means of communication in many cases. It never seemed right that a private company was being put in between public functions and the the public which depends on them. Not to mention, since I live outside the US, a private company in another country. I even wrote complaints to one local public body to ask them to set up a communication channel t…
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It’s ridiculous to blame this on being “data pillaged” when Twitter intentionally priced out any legitimate ways to access Twitter algorithmically.
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#444Anybody feel like this is ironically going to accelerate the decline of twitter? I'm never, EVER making a twitter account. However publishers still communicate with me via tweets I could see. Now that I need an account to view tweets, publishers just have a smaller audience. I'll just see the screenshots on reddit anyway :)
All sorts of services seem to think that mandatory accounts drive "engagement". No doubt it works on certain metrics. Long term... we'll see. I know I still don't have a Pinterest account.
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#445Elon Musk wrote:
Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas.
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#447They appear to have also drastically decreased the rate-limit for viewing tweets. I've hit 429 errors twice browsing my timeline normally, and looking at the headers shows the current rate-limit is 50 tweets per 15 minutes, at which point you get locked out.
edit: Scrolling a thread counts as a hit against this every time it needs to load more tweets, so this is very easy to hit.
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#448This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
I have a prediction that will make you happier: This is a temporary thing, that will generate a TON of press (outrage ; praise by the fans at the amazing bold strategy move) and will also generate a TON of signups right as there is a wave of people leaving Reddit. And then it will magically open back up. (More press) And that's the story of pretty much every one of the outrageous/bold/brilliant/terrible strategic dec…
>will also generate a TON of signups
I've been meaning to make a Twitter account since I follow a few accounts for some games that I play.
Between Twitter not being owned by a loon anymore and finally a reason to overcome my laziness, why not?
And yes, I know I'm playing right into Twitter's hand. Whatever, I actually like Musk anyway (an unpopular opinion that will no doubt get me flagged around these parts).
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I don't see why they can't do both, have an official website (with RSS), and automatically share the links on Twitter.
Setting up an official website with RSS that allows nontechnical users to securely post in real-time costs time, money, and expertise. Signing up for a Twitter account is free and can be done by literally anyone in the organization.
This only makes sense for small organizations. Any medium sized government organization already has a web site.
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#450This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( Totally! The internet was better before pay walls / auth walls. I get why we're here today, and I get that the last phase was just about acquiring an audience, and getting people hooked, and now this part of getting everyone to pay was always the plan, but this part really does suck. Just feels like all the services lined up to start shitting on users at the same…
Embrace the audience, extend the functionality, then exploit the users.