[HN Gopher] Twitter now requires an account to view tweets ___________________________________________________________________ Twitter now requires an account to view tweets Author : celsoazevedo Score : 82 points Date : 2023-06-30 19:36 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (techcrunch.com) (TXT) w3m dump (techcrunch.com) | chrisandchris wrote: | Somehow they required an account to view more than a few replies. | Then it got ,,better" and they removed that requirement. And a | few days ago I realized I can't view anything at all without | logging in. | | I'm not really sad about that change. Just going to miss out some | things because I don't see why I should register to read a few | tweets a week. | Macha wrote: | I will miss some of the Ukraine news as twitter was good for | that, but that's about it for me at this point. | kibwen wrote: | Here's a Mastodon server that mirrors many Ukraine-related | Twitter accounts: https://fed.celp.de/@uanews | | (Who knows how long it will keep working, of course.) | veave wrote: | Doesn't seem very neutral. | GloomyBoots wrote: | I'm not active on social media for the most part, and have to | remind people not to send me links to sites that require a login | (Pinterest for example). I don't have a Twitter account, but | there were accounts I liked to browse occasionally. In the months | before the Musk takeover, Twitter kept coming up with new things | that you couldn't do without logging in. Finally, it was | completely unusable. One of the earlier easy wins Musk made was | undoing all of that. Now, on top of everything else he's managed | to spectacularly torpedo, we're back to this. | jamesgreenleaf wrote: | Musk 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!" | celsoazevedo wrote: | Screenshot: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/2023/twitter.png | denysvitali wrote: | I was confused at first on why a random dude posted a link to | a screenshot hosted on Celso Azevedo's website (the Google | Camera port index creator). | | Then I realized... hello there! (: | celsoazevedo wrote: | Hey! Yep, that's me. | | I was going to host the screenshot on imgur, but I'm not | sure if we can trust them anymore... | INTPenis wrote: | So first of all HE scaled the infrastructure down to save | money. | | Secondly, that "data pillaging" was exposure, he just removed | exposure from people's tweets to save money, again. | | Good work Elon. | csilverman wrote: | Yes, it was definitely the "data pillaging" that was degrading | service, and not the fact that Twitter is now hosted on a Mac | Mini under somebody's desk... | dang wrote: | " _Don 't be snarky._" | | " _Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation | of what someone says, not a weaker one that 's easier to | criticize. Assume good faith._" | | I'm not saying you owe CEO billionaires or billionaire CEOs | better, but you owe this community better if you're posting | here. If you'd please review and follow the site guidelines, | we'd appreciate it: | https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. | rlpb wrote: | Presumably this is because I have to download an entire | JavaScript app in order to view 280 bytes of tweet. | odd_perfect_num wrote: | What a shame the his post requires an account to view... | consumer451 wrote: | I wonder what percentage of legitimate traffic is blocked by | this. I would imagine that the majority of users don't have an | account, by a large margin, correct? | PopularUsername wrote: | I am unable to read the tweet, I'll have to take your word for | it | csilverman wrote: | This feels a little like the shittiest restaurant in town raising | its prices. I have an account, and I wouldn't even bother logging | in at this point. Why bother? The Twitter experience is so | devotedly wretched that whatever I'd get from the tweet I want to | see is outweighed by everything I have to wade through to see it. | | There was a point when Twitter was good enough that maybe they | could have pulled something like this and gotten away with it. At | this point, I think all this will do is hasten their irrelevancy. | gottorf wrote: | > The Twitter experience is so devotedly wretched | | Even the content aside (that you have to wade through), just | from a technical perspective the Twitter experience leaves a | lot to be desired. | villgax wrote: | This was the case for interactivity for any click if opened | without logging in since years, similar to Instagram as well | ChrisArchitect wrote: | [dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535822 | f0e4c2f7 wrote: | Sort of related, I was wondering will teddit.net also be shutting | down when the API is shuttered? | | Seems like it would be but didn't know if it works using scraping | or something. | millzlane wrote: | I noticed this earlier today when trying to follow a quote from | linked from a new York times article. I thought "well thats | fucked up how will anyone know what they said" lol. Twitter is | such a crap show now lol. Really only useful to people who use | it. | mkl95 wrote: | Twitter has now endured Instagram levels of enshittification. It | has been a crappy product since the mid 2010s, but at least it | was minimally usable back then. | tedunangst wrote: | Was a little surprised to discover that nitter just throws up | stack traces to users for errors. | marcodiego wrote: | Since today I've been https://nitter.it/ . Don't know how long it | will work though. | xwdv wrote: | Sucks that it's gone, but as a final aside, I never liked the | name Nitter anyway. You better have perfect diction when talking | about Nitter. | justnotworthit wrote: | for the desperate: | | https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-... | add username at end | | from https://einaregilsson.com/redirector/ and | https://gist.githubusercontent.com/robotblake/a0f020381c1a91... | wheelerof4te wrote: | This is why I've disconnected from all social media, these forum- | like sites being an obvious exception. | | They have become an anti-thesis of freedom that was promised when | World-wide-web emerged. | HungSu wrote: | A lot of comments suggesting federation as the solution to | centralisation. I believe this is a false dichotomy. | | I think Write Once, Publish Everywhere (including both | centralised and federated) is much better. | | https://indieweb.org/POSSE | thih9 wrote: | How to do that in practice? | | I find it tedious to update various social media platforms by | hand, especially when each platform has its own rules and | conventions. There are paid services that help but they often | don't cover all of the platforms that I use, or are | prohibitively expensive. Also if you just post a link to your | site some social media platforms will treat you as a spammer. | kibwen wrote: | Different contexts call for different approaches. "Write once, | publish everywhere" is ideal for read-only content. For a | social network that is user-centric/identity-focused (like | Twitter), federation makes sense; for a social network that is | "topic-centric" (like Reddit) you can just have individual | forums like the old days. | RobotToaster wrote: | How? | | twitter and facebook make automating that difficult with their | API restrictions. | jug wrote: | Ugh, what an eventful time of social media this has been. | | First Twitter API, then Reddit API, so today Apollo and many more | Reddit clients shut down, and now Nitter. :-( | | I'm happy Lemmy is kind of taking off. I think it's helped more | than Mastodon because it's less realtime/feed focused and slower | paced. It also doesn't require you to form a friend circle to | benefit. Instead, the community is waiting for you already. You | just sign up on an instance and add your communities. Done. This | helped me a lot, together with sites like https://sub.rehab | agluszak wrote: | And now imagine a citizen wants to quickly check | news/updates/whatever from a government agency or a city council | which doesn't have a fediverse account | badtension wrote: | Looks like this is the best moment to move to the fediverse. | Each country to have its own instances and accounts for all | public institutions and governors. | KSteffensen wrote: | Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook for | official communication in the first place? | | At the very least if these sites are being used for official | communication that might be critical to peoples safety some | sort of privileged status or ToS should be negotiated. Can you | imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government agency | because he had a fit while high at 3 am? | | Also: https://xkcd.com/743/ | wepple wrote: | NY Transit officially stopped using Twitter. I hope others | follows. | | Google results that require a login to view are cancerous | ben_w wrote: | > Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government | agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am? | | Not only, but also. | | Does the Chinese government run an account? Have American | politicians been as upset about this as they seem to have | been about TikTok? I'd check the former, but, well, the | subject under discussion. | corndoge wrote: | > Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook | for official communication in the first place? | | Exactly this. It's fine if they use twitter to syndicate news | that is also announced on official government systems, but | not as a primary and certainly not as a solitary distribution | method. | | > Can you imagine Musk banning some random non-USA government | agency because he had a fit while high at 3 am? | | That would be hilarious and maybe it would result in some | people learning that twitter is in fact a private corporation | that can do whatever it wants, but i doubt it - similar | incidents proved that large swathes of users believe twitter | is or should be treated as public infrastructure rather than | prompting significant moves to user controlled platforms | kevinmchugh wrote: | Musk has been deferential to governments to date, even when | that flies in the face of his idea of a free speech platform. | KerrAvon wrote: | Musk has also been deferential to catturd2 and banned | journalists for imagined crimes. | andsoitis wrote: | > Musk has been deferential to governments to date, even | when that flies in the face of his idea of a free speech | platform. | | It's a business. Free speech is the brand. | nologic01 wrote: | This is one of the biggest scandals nobody is talking about. | | Any talk about privacy awareness is invalidated when public | sector entities endorse these platforms and encourage | citizens to participate. | | Any talk about the public sector not picking winners is a | joke when they explicitly advertise and provide links on | their websites to particular platforms. | | We have normalized alot of abnormal stuff in the past | decade... | paulddraper wrote: | > Why the hell are government agencies using Twitter/Facebook | for official communication in the first place? | | Reach. | | IDK if anyone is using it as the _sole_ method of | communication. | | But Twitter in practice has a much higher reach than every | other method. | tgsovlerkhgsel wrote: | I've definitely seen critical info communicated either only | on Twitter, or first on Twitter and only much later | elsewhere. Not sure if it was alerts ("chemical plant on | fire, close windows") or crisis communication ("emergency | water supplies being distributed at Foo street"), but it | was a case of "use Twitter or suffer serious consequences". | | Stuff like "public transit line 17 out of service" being | announced only on Twitter is completely par for the course. | KerrAvon wrote: | It doesn't, though; this is a myth propagated by | journalists, who are Twitter addicts and are the only | reason it survived Musk's initial incompetence. | marcodiego wrote: | Since today I've been https://nitter.it/ . Don't know how long it | will work though. | emergie wrote: | Looks like nitter doesn't work anymore. I am unable to find a | working instance | | https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances | rconti wrote: | Looks like Twitter was officially evicted out of their Boulder | office today. Had a fire sale on furniture out on the street, at | least until the Sheriff seemed to stop employees from going into | the building anymore. | jacobsenscott wrote: | Lol, I would have made the drive up just to see if I knew. | lapcat wrote: | Here's a trick to view a tweet: use the embed. | | https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311... | jansan wrote: | I tend to spend way more time on Twitter than I should, so I | blacklisted it on my router and only accessed it through Nitter. | Since I will not remove it from the blacklist, that's it with | Twitter. Overall this is probably a good thing for me. | ineedausername wrote: | Should we cry now or something? | duringmath wrote: | They're just reporting the news how you react to it is up to | you | mydriasis wrote: | I choose to cry, then. Seems sensible. | diego_sandoval wrote: | I choose to delete my Twitter account, which I didn't use | much anyway. | nunez wrote: | This 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. :( | j-bos wrote: | I feel the same. Had 4 twitter accounts I followed on nitter | after losing my account, and now, not sure. Feels like a time | of (light) mourning. | [deleted] | coffeebeqn wrote: | Ok, I'm not entirely unhappy to stop consuming Twitter for good. | Musk sure showed me | odd_perfect_num wrote: | This phased out obsolescence (where people who care can create an | account to archive old content before the site's deletion) should | be the new norm! | aeyes wrote: | Embed links still work and I don't see how Twitter could disable | them without causing a bit more outrage. But maybe they don't | even care anymore. | morbegn0 wrote: | https://nitter.cz/, from the Czech collective NoLogz, has a | statement in place of the error message: | | | | | | "Nitter.cz is not working, just like all other Nitter instances. | The reason is Twitter blocking all access to it's content without | login. | | We are sorry, but there is nothing we can do about it right now | and we are not sure if the situation will change in the future. | | Don't trust corporations, especially those where one egomaniac | has all the power. Use open-source and community driven solutions | if you can (like Mastodon). | | Sincerely, NoLog.cz collective | | PS: You can also donate to us to keep our other services running" | activitypea wrote: | I just ran into this problem -- not being able to view tweets | without logging in. As much as I hate Musk, this is clearly the | trajectory of all platforms. Without a unified push towards self- | hosting or the fediverse, the internet as we know it is over :( | jtriangle wrote: | We'll probably see a comeback once the LLM craze has blown | over. So, 5-10 years | gjsman-1000 wrote: | Been over for a long time. We've had a lot of consolidation | into Reddit (which, you can browse mostly anonymously, it will | just beg you to death to log in unless you use the old site); | and we've also had a mountain of consolidation into Discord | (the most unsearchable system ever designed). | | People stopped hosting their own forums. Frankly, it's hard to | not see why. The constant spam and people avoiding bans wasn't | helpful - and modern forum software like Discourse is pure | agony to set up and maintain if you don't know what you are | doing. Not that forum software hasn't always been hard to set | up, but the modern software stacks are particularly hard to | manage. Also, what normal people see as good UX, in my | experience, almost completely _does not match_ what computer | engineers and the average open-source contributor sees as good | UX. | hayd wrote: | Noticed this morning that nitter was down and twitter made tweets | completely unavailable until you're logged in. Very annoying. | | I wonder what happened to embedded tweets? | saurik wrote: | (Embedded tweets also stopped working.) | neltnerb wrote: | And people said I was being a Luddite for saying "just copy | the text or take a screenshot", that's a lot of "news" | articles at this point. | | Definitely disturbing that journalists (especially) figured | it was good archival practice to rely on the Twitter API in | providing context. | | For years, if I didn't enable twitter's javascript, news | articles are missing images and quotes, obviously so. It's | embarrassing, I honestly don't know how they recover from | this, I don't know why they kept relying on Twitter embedding | when screenshots and copy/paste work better and don't break. | CatWChainsaw wrote: | I grew up with the practice of never putting more of my | life in the digital world than necessary. Given the recent | Amazon smarthome snafu I don't see a reason to change. | | Very innovation, many progress. | nickloewen wrote: | This comment on a related HN post seems to indicate they're | still working: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36542606 | | Here's the example link from that comment: | https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16748657311... | | Edit: and here's a random news article (post?) that has a | working embedded tweet: | https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23780357/new-footage-of-t... | renewiltord wrote: | As an amusing aside, you can search for "username twitter" for | many of the people posting here on hn.algolia.com and get a | sequence of "I don't use Twitter" then "This Twitter account is | decent" in a short span of time which makes me suspect many of | these claims are not true. | | For my part, this is an annoyance since I use nitter's API to | feed Tweets to a Slack I share with friends. | agluszak wrote: | Putting the internet in the hands of corporations was the worst | thing that ever happened to technology | paxys wrote: | Doesn't come as a surprise when you look at how openly hostile | the open source community still is to prioritizing user | experiences and supporting tech-illiterate users in general. | | FOSS, fediverse, IPFS all had their chance, and they blew it. | Corporations were the ones who opened up the internet to the | 99% of people who would otherwise never have been there at all, | and now they want to collect their cut. | MrOwen wrote: | To be completely fair, FOSS' marketing budget is orders of | magnitude smaller than these corporation's budgets. Not to | say that you're wrong but I suspect that's more like a drop | in the bucket compared to marketing. | | Even now, these federated sites on the rise have technicial | growing pains. And those will probably take years to get | through until it's to a point where everyone can use it with | little friction. | RIMR wrote: | The internet was conceived as a democratic haven, a realm where | every individual had the potential to influence and shape their | digital experience. However, a pervasive dip in technological | literacy and a rising dependency on heavily-guided online | pathways has begun to shift this balance. If this trend | persists, corporations will continue to maintain their | overarching dominion. | | A dynamic, user-driven community still thrives in the vast | expanse of the digital world, yet it lies hidden beyond the | towering edifices of corporate-controlled structures. | Discovering these spaces has become an increasingly formidable | task, as the infusion of corporate social content into | journalistic and blogging platforms perpetuates the mirage that | such networks are all that exist. | | Each colossal tech corporation we see today began its journey | as a modest, affable endeavor. As these projects expanded with | their burgeoning popularity, users neglected to challenge the | escalating influence and control these companies wielded. | | Nitter was merely an alternative facade to Twitter. Despite | offering an ad-free environment, it lacked substantial | advantages as the underlying platform remained the same - | Twitter. | | However, the digital realm is not void of choices. Federated | social media is emerging as a profound alternative. Yet, a | majority of those voicing concerns about corporate social media | seem to dismiss options like Mastodon. This is primarily due to | their increased technological demands and people's comfort in | having a corporation guide their online journey. | | The power to reshape your digital footprint rests in your | hands. You can sever ties with your corporate social media | accounts. You can choose to eschew media that incessantly | embeds corporate social media content. You can advocate for an | internet not ruled by corporate influence. All it requires is | the willingness to venture beyond the realm of comfort. | the-printer wrote: | > The internet was conceived as a democratic haven, a realm | where every individual had the potential to influence and | shape their digital experience. | | I have a hard time reconciling this perspective with history. | Were any of these ideals present among the | people/organizations responsible for the internet and the Web | at the time that they were being developed? Or is sentiment | like yours something that people adopted later on? | RIMR wrote: | I was speaking more to the ethos that arose as the internet | was opened up to the public and began to evolve in the late | 20th century. You are correct that this is a far cry from | its initial conception as a military communications network | (ARPANET). | nomel wrote: | I'm not sure that's a fair perspective. | | Twitter made a convenient, easy to use, centralized (which is | an _absolute_ positive for user experience), social media | product that attracted people, by their own free will. The | number of people using a social media service amplifies its | "usefulness", so the more people, the stronger it attracts new | users. | | We didn't put the internet in the hands of these corporations. | We walked over and _sat_ in their, easy to use, hands. | throwaway1777 wrote: | What in the heck are you even talking about? The internet would | be nothing without tech companies. | ben_w wrote: | At university I was using JANET, and in some ways it was | better than what we have now. | | I don't think they'd have ever bothered inventing privacy | violating trackers A/B testing (though if I'm wrong this is | the best place to assert wildly and be quickly corrected). | throwaway1777 wrote: | Who cares. 99.99% of the world would never use something | like that. They want apps on iPhones. | darkarmani wrote: | No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to be | distributed is what is stupid. | | The Internet is supposed to be distributed. We've gotten so | used to consolidated services that we have forgotten this | lesson. | convolvatron wrote: | don't you think one is a consequence of the other? | staplers wrote: | Centralizing control of something that was designed to be | distributed | | This is human nature/greed unfortunately. Look at any natural | (distributed) resource. The current economic system rewards | this as well. | osmarks wrote: | It is not an issue of human nature. Centralization just | makes implementation waaaay easier. Distributed systems | design is very hard. | eddythompson80 wrote: | There is a failure of technology too. The internet is | distributed, sure, but the server-client architecture puts | all the operational burden on the server. The expectation | that everyone will run their own internet exposed instance | of _any_ thing is still simply not feasible, even today. | The operational complexity of security, availability, | monitoring etc are unmanageable even for technical users. | Back when smaller forums were popular, hearing of a forum | getting hacked was pretty much the norm. They get hacked, | they go down for few days, they come back from a backup | losing few days or hours of data, and on to the next | vbulletin. Phpbb, nuke, or whatever vulnerability /hack. | There doesn't yet exist a distributed system that can | replace something like facebook, twitter, Reddit, YouTube, | TikTok, instagram, or even WhatsApp without a significant | operational burden or added complexity. | | It's also not a very interesting problem to solve because | of the type of cliffs you will run into due to precisely | how the "internet works" | hkt wrote: | Centralisation vs decentralisation in tech is pretty much | irrelevant. | | What is relevant is governance. We allow billionaires and | venture capitalists to govern a commons that we all rely on. | Surprise surprise, it isn't going well. | | The solution is not to have (difficult to scale) federated | alternatives. The solution is collective ownership. | | Imagine for a moment that the multinationals that are | increasingly in charge of our lives were owned by their | customers. Imagine they had a fair electoral system, | reflecting the variety of those users, limiting them to one | person, one vote, and that their constitutions were designed | to guarantee the rights of minorities. | | The journey that most countries went on through the 20th and | 21st centuries, in other words. | | Tech giants and other multinationals are a different kind of | beast, because they govern a little slice of our lives | instead of having carte blanche. But it is not beyond the | realm of possibility for democratically operated | multinationals to exist. It will be hard to do, but IMO, that | approach has a bright future because non-techies can grasp it | and participate in it more easily, and that is one less | barrier to a runaway network effect than the fediverse has. | MrOwen wrote: | Can you not have both? Each federated instance costs money | to upkeep. Some instances could elect for collective | ownership or even elect to donate for develop (probably | this needs to be carefully considered to deter corporate | ownership). I like your idea but I think there needs to be | an interim step and for now, maybe that's federation. Maybe | we'll get to the place you speak of... one day. | skrowl wrote: | [dead] | flyinghamster wrote: | It's that old tradeoff - convenience vs. single point of | failure. Unfortunately, we're getting to see now what that | single point of failure does to us. A big chunk of the open | web is winking out of existence at this very moment. | badtension wrote: | > No. Centralizing control of something that was designed to | be distributed is what is stupid. | | Sounds like the issues we currently have with democracy. | seanw444 wrote: | Distributed power takes more effort. Of course people | naturally trend towards lazy over the generations because | it's easier and more efficient at the cost of everything it | was initially supposed to be. And now we are where we are: | executive branch agencies legislating. | badtension wrote: | That's why we shouldn't optimize everything, the longer I | live the more I understand that overoptimization is the | root of all evil. We should analyse what we are doing and | how we are changing things in the long term, monitor the | situation and adjust accordingly. Otherwise our systems | will find a local optimum that benefit the most powerful | groups. Happens in all aspects of life, modern capitalism | being the prime example. | jrflowers wrote: | This makes sense. It's all been downhill since we stopped using | the public utility company America Online | warmwaffles wrote: | [x] doubt | | Putting the internet in the hands of the Government wouldn't | fair much better. | phone8675309 wrote: | False dichotomy - there are more options for Internet control | than purely private and purely government. | agluszak wrote: | That's a false dichotomy. Government-regulated doesn't mean | government-run. I wish we had laws in place that would | prevent Facebook/Apple/Google/Twitter monopolies/walled | gardens from happening | hkt wrote: | See my comment above: these companies could be the formal and | effective property of their users. | JohnFen wrote: | The internet started in the hands of the government. | omoikane wrote: | Twitter has started blocking unregistered users (theverge) - | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36535822 | teddyh wrote: | Paul Graham famously started to use Mastodon (but has not written | anything there since last year). But the _HN Status_ emergency | "is HN down" channel never switched. It used to be publicly | readable at <https://twitter.com/HNStatus>. But now, if HN was | to go down, only logged-in Twitter users would be able to see | why. | rektide wrote: | "Temporary emergency measure" | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957 | fuzzbazz wrote: | Perfectly timed with tomorrow reddit API changes and possible | user exodus. | agluszak wrote: | Same kind of speech as "special military operation" | orblivion wrote: | The thing is if it weren't meant to be temporary I'd still | expect him to undo it. Twitter is iconic, it's a big part of | "the news" in a way. It just doesn't seem like it would be | the same thing if it had exclusivity. So I'd expect them to | reverse the decision after seeing the drop in engagement. | Just like they did regarding the ban on promoting one's | Mastodon account. | berkle4455 wrote: | You can blame this all you want on evil social media | corporations, but the reality is AI companies scraping public | conversations to feed LLMs are the current reason for walls being | erected around every single garden. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, | Reddit, LinkedIn.. all heading toward full walled garden mode to | prevent scrapers from repurposing data and profiting off their | systems. | | Federated systems are a nice idea, but they're not funded and | will crumble under the same pressure until they too go into | private mode. It's simply not a financially sound decision to run | an open node that is continually harvested by corporations | seeking to profit off the conversations occurring on your | platforms. | Nextgrid wrote: | AI companies is a stupid argument. If the AI company operates | legitimately, then TOS prohibiting using the content for LLM | training purposes would be enough. If the AI company doesn't | want to play ball then restricting public access won't stop | them, they'll just register accounts en-masse and scrape that | way. | [deleted] | KerrAvon wrote: | Twitter has been slow since Musk took over and fired all of the | competent devops people and then shut down most of the data | centers. It's reasonable to assume that he's either been lied | to or is lying about the cause of this. | AlexandrB wrote: | I've viewed twitter wayyyyy less (only when someone links | something) since Tweetbot stopped working and I think it's been | good for my mental health. A login wall will take that usage down | to zero, so good news overall. | nocoiner wrote: | Same here. I haven't really missed it at all (by contrast, I | stopped using Reddit when the blackout started earlier this | month, and that feels like more of a loss). | | Weirdly, Twitter had started becoming so unreliable for me for | several months prior (frequently not loading, video rarely | working) that my click-through rate on Twitter links was | already diminishing. But looks like it's 0% from here on out. | babypuncher wrote: | Does this mean companies will finally stop putting their official | announcements only on Twitter? I already deleted my Twitter | account months ago and I'm not about to create a new one. | hiddendoom45 wrote: | A fork of nitter by PrivacyDevel [0] should still work as it adds | the option of using user account tokens to bypass content | restricted tweets. | | [0] https://github.com/PrivacyDevel/nitter ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-06-30 23:00 UTC)