Of course Elon is free to close twitter like this, as sad as it is. It’s his company (which already halved in value since he bought it…)
BUT, governments and officials really must stop using twitter for official communication at this point. It’s not OK to require people to make an account just to view their communication.
Our Dutch government actually set up their own Mastodon instance, but many politicians still continue to use twitter.
All they achieved was make me not ever engage with their website in any capacity. I’m not making an account, I’m not logging in. If I can’t see the content without logging in, or with a proxy, I’ll just never see it. It’s no sweat off my back if I can’t see some random porn someone linked in a group chat.
Doesnt work because it uses the same method as nitter, which is creating ghost account. It got automatically banned
It got updated so you can log in with Twitter accounts instead of only using guest accounts. It still works as far as I can tell
all this does is make me completely uninterested in twitter. at least with nitter i would make an effort to use it to look at the few accounts that stayed in twitter that i liked
It amazes me how much effort people will go to in order to experience the shitshow that TwitXter is.
Just avoid entirely.
The sooner it dies the better society will be
it is not as easy as it sounds because public services and figures send their news/notifications through X
Recently our county sheriff put out an Amber Alert (a forced alert on all mobile devices) but the obfuscated link resolved to Twitter.
I wonder what portion of the public saw the Twitter login page and just closed the tab, never to see the details of the child abduction.
