API works great, for now https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username] https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id... Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking
Correction: https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/tweets/[username]?uid=[...
Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
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Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I think my main communication is probably the last tool that I want to be government backed tbh.
what country are you from that you trust US corps more than your own government?
Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
#273Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view. We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to…
I wish I understood why the majority of the AI discussions happen on Twitter/X.
I don't think anything on twitter can really be called a discussion. The UI is designed for shouting into the void, anything else is an afterthought
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#274I 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…
The EU should rather embrace open standards rather than building a closed competitor here. We already have XMPP and Matrix, all that's required is for public institutions to use them.
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It's because of spam. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Ironically AI could fix this when trivial spam detection inference becomes cheap enough to throw away on every upload.
AI would classify anything disagreeing with the government as spam. For example right now it would classify anything opposing Israel as spam.
Yes and most importantly when the black box flags something as spam there will be no appeal.
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Because it worked without an account before Elon came to Twitter and changed it?
Would've happened either way. Data is more valuable and also trivial to scrape now.
Which is the root of the problem - that we have allowed companies to claim ownership over and sell their user's data.
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Do you think if government accounts were on Signal, people would install it?
Signal requires a mobile phone for an account; so it's not entirely web-friendly. Plus, can you read what's posted to signal without an account?
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#278Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
There is a carrier neutral WhatsApp, called SMS.
Whatsapp etc. only took off because SMS is so limited, and the mobile companies are so profit-focused they can't make a decent competitor.
(how is whatsapp paid for again?)
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#279I 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…
It is ubiquitous, but as a Dutchie who's never had WhatsApp, it is not quite at the level of an email address yet, luckily.
Re: Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
#280I 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…
It's frustrating, but we need to accept that we are not the kind of user that these platforms want. I stopped using Reddit for the same reason, and I accepted that I'm not the best user for them. For my luck, Reddit is not used as the main communication channel for government agencies
We actually don't need to accept that. When they become big enough for network effects to become inescapable they need to be treated as utilities more than random private companies.