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Wasn’t making tweets available to see without a login again one of Musk’s first actions upon buying Twitter?

• calgarymicro 3y ago
  No; tweets have always been viewable without an account. What he did do early on was make it so you could view someone's entire profile without signing in (previously after you scrolled down a bit you'd get hit with the login flow). But then he started restricting things again; first he restricted Twitter search to logged in users, and now the entire site.
  • bdw5204 3y ago
    You could actually close the login thing by hitting the X button after login or register instead of actually logging in/signing up. Of course Twitter was counting on most people not knowing this.
    • calgarymicro 3y ago
      I browsed Twitter without an account at the time and I don't remember this being the case; there wasn't a way to exit the login flow. These[0][1] Reddit thread seems to confirm that. [0]https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/sno1md/login_demands/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/sno1md/login_deman... [1]https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/sod9ej/twitter_mobile_website_now_requires_you_to_create/ https://www.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/sod9ej/twitt...
      • Detrytus 3y ago
        It worked for me exactly as described by GP. It stopped working today.
• tredre3 3y ago
  I don't know if it was requested by Musk, but the legend goes that George Hotz made the login popup dismissable in december last year. You could always see a direct tweet without login, but his change made it possible to also see timelines or tags or use search. Which is apparently being reverted now.