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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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[–] LoafyLemon@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, they didn't. I still cannot view twitter without an account.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand how these articles keep misleading people on this. You can now view shared links. You cannot browse without logging in.

[–] SoLongSealion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Author was accidentally still logged in but forgot?

[–] ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Seems like you can look at individual tweets, but that's it. You can't even see replies.

[–] bioemerl@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Basically they didn't want to keep getting killed by the Google search index

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm also unable to see comments. They are very good at killing twitter. @ThatOneKirbyMain2568
@Very_Bad_Janet

[–] cerevant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t matter, I’m done trying.

[–] ndsvw@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago

The company motto is pretty much "chaos"

[–] MrPumpernickel@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much blocking anon views upped the bounce rate.

[–] AndrewZabar@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah probably the traffic took a nose dive they figured they have to backtrack. Better get a little rather than nothing.

[–] xc2215x@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Elon knew that Threads was gaining a lot so he made a decision to do this.

[–] reclipse@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago

I still can't do it.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much blocking anon views upped the bounce rate.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much blocking anon views upped the bounce rate.

[–] Luvon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I wonder how much blocking anon views upped the bounce rate.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Very_Bad_Janet I'm still unable to see twitter replies / comments.

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was just able to read a tweet from May 2023. I wasn't able to read replies. I don't have an account. So maybe this is working inconsistently?

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 1 year ago

The real reason that this is done, is to avoid users to index and scrape the website. Allowing to workaround the api rate limits. Twitter is ded.

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