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Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by ayakang31415 »

zmmmmm wrote: post #337

It 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…

Unfortunately, we are living in a world where using private company's social media is the most effective way to communicate public announcement as lots of people are using it daily. I am not sure if people are going to install government social media app just to receive information pertaining to public matters.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by XorNot »

Well this right here is the penultimate act in the death of Twitter. They've taken the principle place Twitter can monetize it's usage - users who don't have Twitter accounts but are linked to Twitter content - and removed the ability to show ads to them in favor of trying to get account sign ups.

The final act will be when they kill Twitter embeds on the basis of too many people are now viewing Tweets but not signing up for Twitter.

Literally doing the latter thing - killing embeds - would've been a more sensible decision.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by berniedurfee »

calebcannon wrote: post #463
akira2501 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :( The internet is fine. The highly centralized businesses that built themselves on the technology are meeting their inevitable end.

The internet is most definitely not fine. There is an incoming tsunami of chat gpt generated bullshit that is going to make most open discussion sites more or less useless. Twitter requiring accounts and Reddit shutting down apis are both related: chat gpt et al are a threat to the social media business and ironically made possible because of the social media business. TBF I think we should all be exercising extreme…

And don’t forget net neutrality. ISPs haven’t!

The clock is ticking until you’ll need to decide which internet package you prefer, based on content providers and limited by region.

At least Yahoo will probably come free with the base package.

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Post by dghlsakjg »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #477
onlypositive wrote: post #388

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Facebook cut off access to Australian fire brigade pages, among others.

Facebook news is shutting off in Canada where there are currently wildfires. I'm leaving no comment on why.

No comment on why?

It is very clear that it is due to them not wanting to comply with bill C-18.

Reported on by every major news outlet that I’ve seen

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by Papirola »

zmmmmm wrote: post #337

It 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…

wasn't RSS meant to be an answer to this issue?

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by willis936 »

ayakang31415 wrote: post #521
zmmmmm wrote: post #337

It 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…

Unfortunately, we are living in a world where using private company's social media is the most effective way to communicate public announcement as lots of people are using it daily. I am not sure if people are going to install government social media app just to receive information pertaining to public matters.

That was true yesterday. It doesn't seem true today.

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by thephyber »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #477
onlypositive wrote: post #388

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook cut off access to Australian fire brigade pages, among others.

Facebook news is shutting off in Canada where there are currently wildfires. I'm leaving no comment on why.

wrong.

> The move comes in reaction to the federal government's Online News Act, Bill C-18, which would require the tech giant to pay Canadian media companies for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2221275715931

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by scarface_74 »

sneak wrote: post #500
zmmmmm wrote: post #337

It 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…

Public institutions now often require agreeing to the Google Account ToS to get public schooling. IMO this should be illegal.

Every public school and government institution for at least the last two decades has depended on private SaaS companies for everything from recording grades, to managing school lunches, payroll, attendance and almost every other facet of education

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by fatfox »

goldenkey wrote: post #197
tourmalinetaco wrote: post #171

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If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this ( https://mholdschool.com/ ), and while unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t any good FLOSS software for it, it’s certainly a start.

What happened to vBulletin by Jelsoft? Needs to be open sourced.

Woltlab are still around as well. IIRC Burning Board was vBulletin’s fiercest competitor at the time

Re: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

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Post by scarface_74 »

vhcr wrote: post #362
MattGaiser wrote: post #357

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On the other hand, public institutions have long been criticized for not communicating where the people are. Notices posted on their own website are unlikely to read by anywhere as broad an audience. Plenty uses newspapers, but even my grandparents get stuff from Twitter before the paper now, if just from younger people sharing it with them. I agree Twitter shouldn't be the only channel, but it is where the people ar…

I don't see why they can't do both, have an official website (with RSS), and automatically share the links on Twitter.

School systems at least have systems to communicate with parents via automated messages that are delivered via text, emails and voice mail.
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