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.

    • axtualdave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I think we’re reaching that point in the technology cycle where the money people have finally realized that running a social media platform is essentially unprofitable. People absolutely loathe ads and go to extremes to block them, and legislative and regulatory controls are starting to squeeze the manipulative aspects of social media such that what few ads the platforms can serve aren’t as relevant anymore, and the data they collect from their users is protected in more and more jurisdictions.

      So they’re bailing on the open platform idea. They’re slapping paywalls up, putting things behind required-accounts, and trying to build a walled garden they can control.

      I wish them the best. I remember what happened to Prodigy, CompuServer, and AOL.

  • N00dle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is super annoying. I was trying to read a news tweet but can’t I don’t have an account. They did this on a Friday and haven’t commented on it means it’s probably here to stay.

      • MercuryUprising@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yep, every company requires quarterly growth and hitting KPIs, so a bunch of assholes with no moral qualms about it will fuck everything to get higher bonuses.

        Its also why everything is subscription based these days.

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I can’t wait for this stubborn jackass to kill off twitter to the point it becomes an unrecoverable decline.

    • cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I never understood the appeal. I have friends that send me random twitter links and I’m like I don’t understand wtf I’m looking at, it’s difficult to tell who is talking to whom, and whatever it was isn’t funny or interesting to begin with. I don’t care what chucklefart69 has to say about a famous person. If I want to read the news, I’ll read the news. I’m ok with not knowing about a major event breaking within the first 5 minutes of it happening.

      • PR_freak@vlemmy.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Right! I thought I was the only dumbass that found tweet structure extremely unintuitive and difficult to understand who was talking to whom

  • Matharl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Maybe users will stop posting link to this site now that a lot of people can’t see it.

    I see this as a plus.

  • With_Teeth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    where were you when nitter die

    i was at home shitposting on /g/ when phone ring

    “nitter is kil”

    “no”

  • Neirin@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Same here. I only browse, so I don’t have an account and I don’t plan on making one. This sucks.

  • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t know if I should be laughing or crying. It’s readily apparent that Musk and Spez don’t understand their product. Like, at all. Governments, politicians, NGOs, and businesses use Twitter because of the broad audience. It works as a platform for announcements because anyone can access it.

    Locking it down to only Twitter users kills this. It isn’t going to help ad revenue either to reduce the audience.

    I saw some people say this was a tech issue and not a policy change, and that better be the case if Twitter wants to survive. They lose their last competitive advantage otherwise.

    • JesusTheCarpenter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      My theory is that they are being sneaky and this is a trial to see how it will affect Twitter if they only made it to registered users. That is why they are calling it a “tech” issue. What a bunch of bollocks. This way they can backdown if they see a negative impact by claiming that they “fixed” the issue.

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as “yes”.

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      It’s pretty wild. Users are inherently lazy. Give a decent product where you can have a positive ROI on user engagement and sit back to rake it in.

      But actively be hostile to users and they are fickle as can be.

      I was on Reddit for 16 years with over 100k karma.

      And I’ve deleted the app I was using for it which they broke and switched app and habits over to Lemmy in less than 24 hours.

      Nothing like hubris with a dash of greed to ensure success for one’s competition.

    • donalonzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The day I realized it was actively trying to make me furious by pushing notifications of incendiary tweets from people I didn’t know existed or cared about writing about stuff I didn’t find interesting but extremely toxic and offensive I stopped using it. It was before Elon took over, but when he did I deleted the account. It’s such a toxic hellscape, I wish the official outlets I followed would just publish to Mastodon instead, but I’d rather just not see anything from that page, it’s absolutely not worth it.

      It’s the sewage of the Internet, and the rats there brutally fight each other for the silliest of reasons.

    • wtf_man@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      twitter is the perfect place to have a screenshot of something you said in 2010 be put on blast so a bunch of college kids can scream about it and demand your corporation fires you

  • Talos@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That’s the end of that, I guess. Most people aren’t going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.

      • NevermindNoMind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I just checked a random news article and embedded tweets seem to be working still. But when you click the tweet you get taken to the login page.

        • scutiger@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I don’t know why they bother embedding tweets. They always quote the tweet anyway, so you end up reading the same bit twice.