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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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[–] skellener@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Sticking with kbin.πŸ‘

[–] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It's actually pretty impressive how they're yoloing so many changes just at the whim of Elon. Eventually maybe they'll actually get to good changes

[–] Haus@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Watching Musk continue to fuck Twitter into the ground is like watching a really bad skier go down a black diamond trail on their face.

[–] FeetiePJs@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like this might apply only to individual tweets. If you want to view someone's main page, you still have to sign in.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably I won't be sharing tweets anytime soon. Add in the fact that there's no official announcement, they might reverse this in 15 minutes when Musk's next tantrum starts. So why bother.

[–] holo_nexus@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now that you pointed it out, I have no clue how people/businesses who rely on twitter can continue to do so with the utter uncertainty the platform runs on daily.

I know they’ve been leaving in droves, but it has been insane how it has been run these past few months.

[–] Phlogiston@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I assume the problem is a lack of alternative they can unify around. If Meta ships something definitive enough, especially for teams that already have a FB presence, there might be a mass migration.

[–] tappytoes@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

The worst is that local fire and police departments often use it to relay info to the public, so I can't even see their messages without a fucking account.

[–] On@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Can't wait for Twitter to silently remove itself.

[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they added something to block web scraping, since nitter is still broken.

[–] takeda@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they still blocking, perhaps by IP? I still see the login page.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same here.

Aha - it's potentially a smart solution for them. Specific tweet links - the thing that they were losing the most traffic from, possibly - still work fine without login. You can't do just general browsing, though. This is what the article mentioned but weren't 100% clear about it.

[–] takeda@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I see. So I guess that will maybe stop google from deindexing them. I'm wondering how long it will take Elmo to figure out that this will block indexing new tweets.

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

What is going on over there?

They’ve got to be hemorrhaging money. Twitter Blue isn’t working, and big advertisers aren’t going to want to spend money on a site that’s so unstable.

[–] esc27@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

May have something to do with tweets geting deindexed by Google

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Musk: incompetent and incapable of recognizing his incompetence, because the media had been sucking his dick for so long.

[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

incompetent and incapable

He was truly good at getting venture capital and at getting the ultra rich to hand him over cash. He was (and may still be) good at hiring skilled sycophants.

He's a horrible manager and an awful decision maker.

His true skill was applying unreal amounts of pressure to very skilled people to pull off momentous things and being very lucky that they didn't explode in his face.

[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk saw that people hated it.

[–] MisterMoo@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Musk saw that Meta is about to launch a fully-funded clone.

[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Musk promised to do this on day one once the bots were handled.