Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.
Surely it will be different for those paying for the reddit API, right?
I feel bad for developers who have built a business around Twitter. But hopefully everyone comes to realize, proactively: just do not do business with Musk or his ilk. Don’t buy from his companies and don’t sell to them either: they don’t pay the bills. Don’t partner with them; they will steal your ideas and steamroll you out of existence. Just let them wither and die.
This just seems like a mess, instead of trying to nudge Twitter profitability he just sledgehammered the entire platform.
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How’s Twitter nowadays? I stopped following their changes ages ago
They’ve just introduced a new feature where you can’t view the site at all without being signed in!
Why would they want you to create an account SO BAD that they would hide their content if you didn’t?
I would get it if it was a newspaper, but on twitter we are the content creators.
You’re not a “content creator”. You’re a set of demographic data to be matched against LAL campaigns. Why should they open the site - and thus the ad spend - to anyone who isn’t being targeted? That’s what the platform is, it’s a way to show ads to people who give up their demo data. I’d imagine non-account users have a very low conversion rate, so don’t bother spending on them. Therefore, put up the wall so that if they want to see things on the platform, they have to agree to the ads as well