Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
@holo_nexus I wonder what they were thinking. They probably fired someone randomly, for justice. Higher ups in the meeting room: “But this random dude doing cable management did not stop us!”; Another voice: “Then fire him.”; Modern problems require modern solution…
But they added something to block web scraping, since nitter is still broken.
Same here.
Aha - it’s potentially a smart solution for them. Specific tweet links - the thing that they were losing the most traffic from, possibly - still work fine without login. You can’t do just general browsing, though. This is what the article mentioned but weren’t 100% clear about it.
What is going on over there?
They’ve got to be hemorrhaging money. Twitter Blue isn’t working, and big advertisers aren’t going to want to spend money on a site that’s so unstable.
It’s actually pretty impressive how they’re yoloing so many changes just at the whim of Elon. Eventually maybe they’ll actually get to good changes
It tried to make me sign in this morning. I don’t have an account so I just hit the back button.