> The truth is that Twitter is public, free I don’t think that’s completely true. > easy for everyone to look at No, it’s not if you want to stay anonymous.

> The truth is that Twitter is public, free I don’t think that’s completely true. > easy for everyone to look at No, it’s not if you want to stay anonymous. If you’re not logged in you can’t scroll all the way down (in most cases). If you try to, it’ll stop you and ask you to log in. As you probably already know, Twitter do require you to give them your mobile number to have an account. If you try to sign up without one, they’ll instantly lock you out of your new account and force you to give them your number. > easy for anyone to respond to No, because you cannot reply anonymously and you need an account which is in one way or another linked to your identity. Circumventing this is very difficult for the average person. > The power of centralization, network effects, easy UI, and low expectations for well structured posts is hard to defeat. And it can be done while giving the users the ability to stay anonymous, but Twitter doesn’t do that. Twitter wont even let you use RSS, likely because that would prevent them from gathering as much data about you. Twitter may not be as bad as Facebook, but it’s still bad. The fact that people feel like they have to use it to gain an audience is unfortunate. I hope it starts dying out like FB and gets replaced by something that’s more open and less hostile to anonymous users. Edit: Clarified that scrolling is broken in most cases for unauthenticated users.