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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by holo_nexus@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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[–] Infiltrated_ad8271@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

But they added something to block web scraping, since nitter is still broken.

[–] takeda@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think they still blocking, perhaps by IP? I still see the login page.

[–] ripcord@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] takeda@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

I see. So I guess that will maybe stop google from deindexing them. I'm wondering how long it will take Elmo to figure out that this will block indexing new tweets.