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I would imagine Twitter would have access to analytics that third parties don't have, which would allow them to pretty easily work out which accounts are logged

I would imagine Twitter would have access to analytics that third parties don't have, which would allow them to pretty easily work out which accounts are logged in and used for browsing and which are actually abandoned.

kadoban 4y ago
As a small complication: I have a twitter account, doubt I've ever tweeted. I browse twitter quite often, but I'm _never_ logged in. No idea if I should be counted or not in any particular bucket, or how anyone would know.
- dan1234 4y ago
  I thought they used a banner that pretty much forced you to log in to see more than the first few tweets in a thread now (same as instagram)? I have an account that is logged in, but it has only sent 7 tweets since 2014 (and they're only to customer service accounts).
  - kadoban 4y ago
    It doesn't seem to. A few months back it was ~forcing for a bit so I moved to nitter.
- natch 4y ago
  What client are you using that allows you to browse without logging in?
  - pseudo0 4y ago
    Opening a Twitter link in a private tab is the low complexity solution, or there's nitter.net, or deleting cookies, or various browser extensions that delete cookies for you.
    - kadoban 4y ago
      I had no idea it was so strict. I just use Firefox. Their cookie behavior must be picky enough that it bypasses whatever nonsense Twitter is doing?
      - pseudo0 4y ago
        After posting that, I went back and retested. It looks like they have swapped back to a soft nag popup. For a few months it was hard blocking any further scrolling, at least with Chrome.
        kadoban 4y ago
        That's quite possible, I did move to nitter for a while, some months back, due to that.
  - kadoban 4y ago
    Firefox :shrug: . It's never forced me. When it gets too annoying trying to push me to login I move to nitter.
  - recursive 4y ago
    Private browsing mode ("incognito" in Chrome)
- HWR_14 4y ago
  AFAIK, you're not counted in any bucket. That's one reason TWTR wants you to log in to read. So active user numbers go up.

kadoban 4y ago

As a small complication: I have a twitter account, doubt I've ever tweeted. I browse twitter quite often, but I'm _never_ logged in. No idea if I should be counted or not in any particular bucket, or how anyone would know.

dan1234 4y ago
I thought they used a banner that pretty much forced you to log in to see more than the first few tweets in a thread now (same as instagram)? I have an account that is logged in, but it has only sent 7 tweets since 2014 (and they're only to customer service accounts).
- kadoban 4y ago
  It doesn't seem to. A few months back it was ~forcing for a bit so I moved to nitter.
natch 4y ago
What client are you using that allows you to browse without logging in?
- pseudo0 4y ago
  Opening a Twitter link in a private tab is the low complexity solution, or there's nitter.net, or deleting cookies, or various browser extensions that delete cookies for you.
  - kadoban 4y ago
    I had no idea it was so strict. I just use Firefox. Their cookie behavior must be picky enough that it bypasses whatever nonsense Twitter is doing?
    - pseudo0 4y ago
      After posting that, I went back and retested. It looks like they have swapped back to a soft nag popup. For a few months it was hard blocking any further scrolling, at least with Chrome.
      - kadoban 4y ago
        That's quite possible, I did move to nitter for a while, some months back, due to that.
- kadoban 4y ago
  Firefox :shrug: . It's never forced me. When it gets too annoying trying to push me to login I move to nitter.
- recursive 4y ago
  Private browsing mode ("incognito" in Chrome)
HWR_14 4y ago
AFAIK, you're not counted in any bucket. That's one reason TWTR wants you to log in to read. So active user numbers go up.