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Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by animanoir »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #4

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

Exactly. This is good since this corporations are basically killing themselves since people, slowly but steady, are realizing they can get info elsewhere on the internet (and people start sharing outside them). So yeah, they are basically forcing users to migrate to more open services.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by mattowen_uk »

tjpnz wrote: post #39
criddell wrote: post #32

When a login is required to view content, how do Google, Bing, and the others crawl the site?

Login is typically disabled for crawlers.

Which by Google's own T&Cs is illegal and could get your site dropped from their index... They state that you should not present a different site experience to their crawler compared to what normal users get.

As usual it's OK for the big guys to break the rules whereas us little site owners have no choice but to obey them.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by reidjs »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #18
reidjs wrote: post #9

For people who post tweets, but don't often read tweets, I recommend creating an app to post on your behalf. It is pretty straightforward through their developer tools. That way, you can also save your tweets locally, instead of having to view your own writing through their platform. If you like to read other people's tweets then you don't have any other option except to login, unfortunately.

My use case is archiving historical or noteworthy tweets. My infrastructure up to this point used Wayback Machine to retrieve and store the content, will have to build something now.

You will probably have to write a scraper :(

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by LudwigNagasena »

SketchySeaBeast wrote: post #34
system2 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The day they turn off old.reddit.com reddit is dead to me. I've been on reddit 10 years and it was hard to understand why they chose this new disastrous design.

It's not just the design, it's the fact that it's buggy and frequently unresponsive. If it was well done I might be able to forgive them, but my phone tells me I have messages I can't see on the desktop even after I refresh the page.

It’s more buggy, less responsive, has less features and consumes more resources. Literally its only pro is that it looks pretty.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by rootsudo »

Theizestooke wrote: post #11
AlwaysRock wrote: post #4

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I'm using old.reddit.com, and it's ok. Shame if they would turn that off though.

They are killing the feed, I don't know for you, but for me it has seemed static.

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by gsibble »

dawnerd wrote: post #27
pkdpic_y9k wrote: post #22

Im just curious, what are the motivations for a company to make this move? It seems like a death sentence to me but I cant think of any examples off-hand.

Chasing metrics.

KPIs can work well or not. In this case, some VP's KPI about increasing signups and % of tweets viewed by signed in users is making Twitter worse (actually better because I hate Twitter).

Re: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

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Post by stackbutterflow »

AlwaysRock wrote: post #4

When Reddit started doing this it effectively broke my redditing habit. I know these things are annoying but for anyone who is trying to use social media less... Twitter, Reddit, and Instagram are almost unusable without their apps. They are basically useless if you dont sign in on the browser on your phone. It's great if you want to get off them.

I agree but unfortunately their mobile website got better (when logged in) and now works really well on my phone.
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