On this moment you’ll need an account to view anything on the platform…

Every day the bird dies a little more

  • Melpomene@kbin.social
    16·
    2 years ago

    The good ol’ loginwall that social media sites have been moving to for a few years. Meta is also guilty of this… making it almost impossible to check out anything without a login.

  • ch1cken@kbin.social
    10·
    2 years ago

    Just a reminder that nitter exists, which lets you browse twitter without needing an account, from a minimal ui and having everything proxied through the instance of choice for privacy. You can use the libredirect firefox addon to automatically redirect twitter (& optionally other services like youtube/reddit, etc to its frontend like nitter).

    You can view a list of instances here.

    edit: … wow it looks like nitter’s also affected by the account requirement, it stopped working, rip…

    • stux⚡ @geddit.socialOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Kinda funny that sooo many links on soo many websites just redirect now

      Hopefully most will now see Twitter is a sinking ship

  • disposabletentacle@kbin.social
    8·
    2 years ago

    It’s frustrating, but I’m betting it won’t last. With all the people who only visit twitter via links from other sites (or those embedded tweets in news articles), doing something like this will cause twitter’s page traffic to suddenly implode. Which will cause their advertisement impression statistics to implode. Which will make their paying advertisers explode. And then twitter will roll it back.

    Unless, of course, Elongated Muskrat is intentionally and purposefully trying to completely remove twitter from existence. In which case, this is a pretty clever move.

    • tal@kbin.social
      2·
      2 years ago

      trying to completely remove twitter from existence

      I expect that Twitter just wants people to install the Twitter app and get Twitter accounts.

      I suppose that Reddit could do the same thing as well.

  • Jerry on Mastodon@hear-me.social
    7·
    2 years ago

    @stux
    @MissingThePt
    I’m now expecting Elon Jr. (Spaz) to do the same on Reddit because Elon is his idol and mentor.

    I wish there was an option on #DuckDuckGo to exclude search results that point to Twitter since I can no longer read them. It’s now just clutter in the search results.

    • exscape@kbin.social
      3·
      2 years ago

      If you browse Twitter without an account you’re probably not part of the problem.
      A friend ran in to this today when trying to check if a service provider was having technical issues.

  • Th4tGuyII@kbin.social
    5·
    2 years ago

    Oh lovely, another loginwall…

    You only have to login, but what if I don’t want an account with you just to read what someone’s put on there?

  • Trit’@shelter.moe
    5·
    2 years ago

    @stux As I said on Mastodon: it probably is another “bug” that plagues Twitter since… “this guy” put his hands on it. It could be fixed soon because of the ruckus it will certainly make.

    For now, you can still use Nitter instead.

  • ConfusedLlama@kbin.social
    3·
    2 years ago

    It makes me really happy to see these ass-CEOs destroying their shitty platforms and making people consider moving to the Fediverse :)