In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall
saw this too! looks like it broke a ton of tweet embeds too… Muskrat says its to mitigate scrapers but–this feels heavy handed
What damage do web scrapers actually cause Twitter? I don’t understand Elon’s logic in this move.
Extra traffic that their infrastructure can’t handle since he fired all the people that knew how.
Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.
So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.
What’s worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data