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Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
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#562Like Quora, I view a whole lot less Quora. This kind of crap is how they lost many of their published top writers. Now Twitter. I am better off for these changes. You can be too. Just log out. It will pass.
I'd like to know what happened to Quora. It's now full of Chat GPT answers and self-proclaimed experts who try to sell you their online course on gemstone energy driven entrepreneurship.
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#563Musk commented on this: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674865731136020505 "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
Haven’t we been predicting twitter’s degradation for some time? When Musk removed half of his employees many of us realised systems would remain running for some time, but at a certain point they would start degrading without intervention. The more Musk makes changes, the faster it degrades.
How much time is it that the systems will remain running? Because it's been 9 months now and Twitter is still running fine. Time to admit that theory has been disproven.
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#564This killed nitter. Fuck. I guess I'm done with Twitter. Reddit is in Eternal September. Twitter is login-walled. If HN is next, I'll probably be mostly done with the Internet. This version of the Internet is starting to suck. :(
It's extremely rough around the edges but getting into fediverse content (mastodon, kbin, lemmy, etc) has been extremely rewarding to me. It's like twitter and reddit but 15 years ago (and by that I mostly mean it's janky and full of bugs. Just like the web was 15 years ago!)
Fediverse doesn’t feel like a solution
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#565Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Don't forget to avoid reliance on a private company's app store while you're at it! You'd need to convince people to side-load an app from a government website, or install a government app store.
Would you trust a government App Store?
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#566Earlier quoted context omitted.
He needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out (blue checks, advertising, etc.). So he's trying to make a quick buck from user-generated data now that the LLM rush is at an all time high. For that he needs to limit access to the data in the first place, otherwise nobody would be paying for publicly available data.
This is how death spirals work. Twitter was treading water a year ago. Taking on lots of debt caused mass layoffs, worrying people about site stability and making them investigate other platforms. A lot of bad tweets scared away advertisers, causing more layoffs and desperation. Signed-in users engage more, so make all users signed-in users (no logical fallacies here).
I’m learning more about the Twitter situation slowly. Why did it take on massive debt?
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#567Earlier quoted context omitted.
He needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out (blue checks, advertising, etc.). So he's trying to make a quick buck from user-generated data now that the LLM rush is at an all time high. For that he needs to limit access to the data in the first place, otherwise nobody would be paying for publicly available data.
> (twitter) needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out Twitter monetizes via 1. advertising, 2. subscriptions, 3. API sales, admittedly I have no idea of the actual numbers. The first claim (that Twitter needs revenue urgently) seems false since the owner has deep pockets.
How many companies owned by the world’s richest men have had lay offs in the last 18 months?
They became that rich by not losing money. It’s a sinking ship and he is trying to plug the hole.
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#568Earlier quoted context omitted.
They weren't "private" TV networks. They are licensed by the government to use our airwaves, which are accessible by all (except CNN, which is cable). There's a big difference. Governmental and public institutions should not be relying on Twitter for their communications. It's unprofessional at the very least.
They absolutely were/are private, even if they used a publicly owned medium to distribute their content. Other than an hour of public-service airtime on Sunday mornings, and lax FCC enforcement of a decency standard, those private TV networks can do/say anything they want. You wouldn't put quotes around that word for cell-phone companies using licensed bandwidth, or airlines using public airspace, would you?
I don’t have an issue with governments using “private” cell phone networks for amber alerts, if that’s what you’re asking
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#570Earlier quoted context omitted.
He needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out (blue checks, advertising, etc.). So he's trying to make a quick buck from user-generated data now that the LLM rush is at an all time high. For that he needs to limit access to the data in the first place, otherwise nobody would be paying for publicly available data.
> (twitter) needs revenue right now, and the other monetization efforts haven't panned out Twitter monetizes via 1. advertising, 2. subscriptions, 3. API sales, admittedly I have no idea of the actual numbers. The first claim (that Twitter needs revenue urgently) seems false since the owner has deep pockets.
Twitter is still $20B away from being in the green from even the most generous estimates. (Elon himself)
Currently Twitter is in the red, and he needs it to not be that and to generate a multi-billion surplus to pay back the investors he took up to finance this.