So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.
Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related
Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.
Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?
That's what I'm experiencing. Every tweet and even going to the main url results in a redirect to a log in splash page.
Well if that's the case Twitter is as dead to me.
Spez has talked about how he's trying to model Reddit on Musk's "success" with Twitter.
It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk's plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.
Twitter is way more prominent than reddit. I doubt that there's a secret plan
If anything, Splez is too dense to notice that Musk seems to be intentionally/unintentionally ruining Twitter. It's really hard to imagine how someone could look at "ad revenue down 70%" and think wow, that's what we need to emulate!
Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…
People have a hard time with the fact that the richest man in the world isn't a genius.
To second this, it seems to be happening to me today too, as of this morning.
It's not a suggestion. It's what they're doing right now.
My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as "yes".
As a large language model, my knowledge cutoff is 2022 so I cannot produce a comments regarding policy changes at Twitter.
can you also tell me in what universe this wouldnt be a shotgun to the ~~knee~~ face?
Musk's delusional one, apparently.
Yep. I wonder what this is going to do to their traffic. I know I’m not signing up.
I bet Reddit will follow suit.