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In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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[โ€“] lozunn@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Temporary" in corpo-speak means permanent if it generates profit and there-were-some-technical-issues if it doesn't, so this is just Felon Muskrat testing the waters.

[โ€“] nameless_prole@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.