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Good news, one of Elon’s top priorities is to remove this nagging stuff and make Twitter fully usable via browser again.

• anigbrowl 4y ago
  Believe it when you see it, not when you hear it.
  • bombcar 4y ago
    I was just able to doom scroll Elon's feed back into October, so maybe it's only enabled on some accounts?
    • anigbrowl 4y ago
      Try it and see, I suppose. My experience of it is that you can read an individual conversation but if you just look at some random person's timeline it will only show you a few tweets before asking you to log in.
      • bombcar 4y ago
        That's what I did (I think, I don't know how to use twitter) - went to https://twitter.com/elonmusk https://twitter.com/elonmusk and kept spinning my mouse wheel down. Maybe it's only on desktop or because I have never logged in?
        • anigbrowl 4y ago
          Could be desktop. Mobile browsing still seems to trigger demands for the app to be installed followed by login requests, though I just picked a few tweets at random rather than checking systematically.
      • Arrath 4y ago
        That specific behavior seems to have gone away when musk culled a whole bunch of microservices a couple weeks back. I know well what you're talking about and it annoyed the hell out of me, but now its gone! For now, on desktop browsers, anyway.
• nonameiguess 4y ago
  That seems to not be true. I just made the mistake of not noticing a Hacker News post was to Twitter a few minutes ago, clicked on it, and couldn't even read the Tweet because it was covered by a modal telling me to turn on notifications, which I'd never seen before. What can Twitter even notify me of if I don't have an account? Everything that is ever Tweeted globally? That would probably be billions of notifications a day.