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Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by oneeyedpigeon » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:19 AM UTC

thexumaker wrote: post #39

zapdrive wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am not a prolific twitter user. I am one of the "anonymous lurkers" I mentioned in my original comment. But your observation makes sense, as I only started visiting Twitter after Elon's takeover. The removal of the login wall must have been the reason.

Yep it used to be you could view individual tweets but nothing else. Elon came in removed it and made everything free to view. A couple months ago I noticed they went back to the old system. And now you can't even view individual tweets. Embedded tweets still work I guess

I think there must have been some kind of nuance beyond that, at some point. The number of people claiming that they couldn't view twitter links — and I'm sure this started pre-Elon — suggests to me that, like someone else has mentioned, there might have been different behaviour for 'anonymous' vs. 'not-logged-in' viewers.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by ciroduran » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:27 AM UTC

This effectively breaks 15 years of links to tweets posted all over the Internet. Just another reason to keep the web open.

This takes Twitter to the same level as Facebook, a website that only lives of its internal posts, where no young people open accounts, and where eventually the only ones who post are the ones who opened an account in its time.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by bubblethink » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:28 AM UTC

Login walls, paywalls, etc., are fine, I just wish google would not index these sites. There has to be a cost for every move. This whole have_and_eat(cake) needs to stop.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by ZeroGravitas » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:34 AM UTC

DennisAleynikov wrote: post #9

cutemoron wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn’t final until people actually leave there. As long as there’re users. Otherwise not gonna happen :(

yeah still waiting on this so called twitter sudden death as people keep hyping up. "this isn't an airport you don't need to announce your departure" - aristotle probably

It probably is polite to announce when you switch communication channels if you have any kind of audience.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by chayesfss » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:39 AM UTC

reneberlin wrote: post #26

And finally, now please break the login-system, too and there will be silence.

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Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by chayesfss » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:40 AM UTC

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Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by thefz » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:41 AM UTC

... And nothing of value was lost.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by andyjohnson0 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:45 AM UTC

I suspect that this is going to deter news sites from using tweets in articles. Imo this is probably a good thing, but what twitter thinks it well get out of this isn't clear to me.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by hiddendoom45 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 8:59 AM UTC

Oddly enough tweets that are age/content restricted do not get the login wall, so while you cannot see the age-restricted tweet, you can still see the replies.

Re: All Twitter content seems to be behind a login wall today

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Post by 28304283409234 » Fri, Jun 30, 2023, 9:09 AM UTC

Fun. I tried to create an account again but cannot get passed the captchas. What a joke twitter has become.