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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by randyrand »

urbandw311er wrote: post #124
randyrand wrote: post #114

Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched ( https://twitter.now )? If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.

I don’t think there will be any confusion. Clearly this is not referring to this random new Twitter thing you’ve linked to that most people have never heard of, it is referring to Twitter the previously global piece of software with hundreds of millions of former users.

Well, I was confused. New Twitter got big coverage today [1] and then more Twitter related news on HN today too.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-laun...

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

iAMkenough wrote: post #48
kijashdkujdfhas wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Based on the downvotes, there's a lot of folks who just can't stand to be reminded who and what they're associating with by continuing to use Twitter. Folks, you don't have to give the nazi bar your business. You will live without Twitter.

I think you’re talking to bots. Anything that doesn’t align with Trump/Elon’s perceived worldview gets downvoted here.

No, he's downvoted because he's saying objectively false things like "Musk is a mass murderer", and subjective but unproductive things like "he's a Nazi". You can dislike Elon Musk and make that point in a mature way that actually leads to a good discussion. People do that all the time and don't get flak for it. This poster has chosen to be incendiary, and people dislike flamebait so it got downvoted.

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Post by veeti »

ghusto wrote: post #109
kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address. It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all g…

Eurocrats could never in a million years make it happen. For starters, every country would insist on having its own ChatsApp, with roll out taking years. Then, to satisfy strict security and compliance regulations it would be restricted to devices passing Google & Apple hardware attestation checks. And once everyone is finally forced to be on board, any confidentiality guarantees can go out the window to catch pedos and terrorists.

It's for the best.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by wackget »

kemotep wrote: post #27

I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too. But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app inst…

I wholeheartedly agree on every point. I've felt this way for years. It's scandalous.

Many companies also rely on socials as their only effective means of customer service. If you have a problem or want to provide feedback but you don't use social media then you are SOL.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by numpad0 »

nomilk wrote: post #153
numpad0 wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think buying Twitter for data was a blunder big as expecting self driving to be solved by 2015 or whenever it originally was. It is only clear with hindsight, but now everyone knows that tweets are literally detrimental for LLM style AI for whatever reason. Personally I think it's because tweets are responses without CoT or prompts, or could be also because all its meat is in the shape incompatible with en-US cultu…

Maybe for training, but how about look up? I often use claude voice and grok voice (both on iOS) and reasonably frequently claude simply cannot find any info about a breaking topic, whereas grok always can.

I wonder if "no one says no" culture is practically the same thing as instructing LLMs to always hallucinate.

You know, LLM hallucination is a phenomenon where the AI would generate syntactically bulletproof chunks of text that are not grounded in reality. Lots of efforts by frontier LLM labs had been made in past few years to solve this by enabling AIs to refute premises in the prompt.

Ordinary people still need to be instructed to google stuffs. They don't go to a niche de facto non-American social media to be disappointed by its notoriously bad search to then conclude its notoriously dumb AI can be abused as a makeshift search tool. People are simply unable.

Twitter has been doing so much things backwards lately. That's reminiscent of how hallucination hurts whatever you do with AIs.

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Post by fuzzfactor »

pfraze wrote: post #150
uygiugiu wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

indeed, bluesky is a great example of self-quarantine

New account, 4 comments, one includes “Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a net win for free speech”

Bless his heart, babies don't know any better.

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by kijashdkujdfhas »

bigstrat2003 wrote: post #162
iAMkenough wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you’re talking to bots. Anything that doesn’t align with Trump/Elon’s perceived worldview gets downvoted here.

No, he's downvoted because he's saying objectively false things like "Musk is a mass murderer", and subjective but unproductive things like "he's a Nazi". You can dislike Elon Musk and make that point in a mature way that actually leads to a good discussion. People do that all the time and don't get flak for it. This poster has chosen to be incendiary, and people dislike flamebait so it got downvoted.

Yeah we get it, you like to hang out at the nazi bar.

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Post by iamnothere »

thevinter wrote: post #136
valleyer wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if it's communication/announcements from the government ? I too am constantly frustrated that official communications from governments happen on Twitter or Facebook.

Communications/announcements from the government can easily be posted on the government's website or, if really needed, sent as an SMS

My local government still lets you sign up for email notifications about services and local alerts. It’s great!

Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account

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Post by swyx »

andrewmutz wrote: post #50

Anyone know the specifics of how this works under the hood? I assumed the people over at Twitter/X would aggressively block systems like this from working. Are they doing something creative to get around that?

sad that i come here for technical information and yours is the first lonely comment asking about how this works
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