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Twitter isn't showing tweets unless you're logged in

18 points by srameshc 3y ago

paulpauper 3y ago
More features that people didn't ask for. How does twitter benefit by not allowing peopel to see the tweets?
spike021 3y ago
On mobile it's really a hassle now. I was in an app that wouldn't let me decide how to open a tweet link. So it kept opening the tweet in a web view, where I'm not logged in. The usual "open in twitter" banner with button kept showing, but when I tapped it it would open the twitter app and immediately bring me to a new user registration page. Closing that just brought me back to the feed. No way to open the tweet except, I suppose, logging in again through the web view. Great UX.
- lazyant 3y ago
  I'm logged in and can't see a tweet link from a web page now
cheese_van 3y ago
There's a certain lack of predictability for users, both viewers and content creators, that may be disquieting for both. And advertisers being unable to reach non-logged viewers diminishes return. I would also expect the growing distaste for the owner's antics additionally diminishes a pleasant experience for some. So returns in value for all involved, in short, is not growing but decreasing. It doesn't seem a trend useful for maintaining engagement, and certainly not for growing it.
damnesian 3y ago
The garden wall just grew a few more feet. from the vantagepoint of Twitter, the glass-half-full view is it will force idle browsers to serve up their data by forcing them to create accounts. But the glass-half-empty view they seem to be ignoring is the out of sight, out of mind principle. The less exposure to the larger public conversation, the less we will think about twitter, the less we will wonder what people are saying on it.
Sai_ 3y ago
Muck Fusk.
- nh23423fefe 3y ago
  resist zero effort commenting
moritzwarhier 3y ago
Funny thing is, shortly after Musk took over, they "made an effort" to spend some pennies on removing the login wall. Wasn't that related to this George Hotz personality? Whatever, I am not especially surprised by any part of how this played out. But I'd still like to say: 1984 is treated as an instruction manual today for tech marketing. And of course sadly and increasingly for politics, when democracy has often been reduced to a competition for the most convincing lie. Users are trapped. For a while, there was no login wall anymore... this is now reverted. Mind you, governments, police, local authorities, they all were keen to adopt twitter for distributing short text messages with a payload size of 1KB and below.

18 points by srameshc 3y ago

More features that people didn't ask for. How does twitter benefit by not allowing peopel to see the tweets?

On mobile it's really a hassle now. I was in an app that wouldn't let me decide how to open a tweet link. So it kept opening the tweet in a web view, where I'm not logged in. The usual "open in twitter" banner with button kept showing, but when I tapped it it would open the twitter app and immediately bring me to a new user registration page. Closing that just brought me back to the feed. No way to open the tweet except, I suppose, logging in again through the web view. Great UX.

lazyant 3y ago
I'm logged in and can't see a tweet link from a web page now

cheese_van 3y ago

There's a certain lack of predictability for users, both viewers and content creators, that may be disquieting for both. And advertisers being unable to reach non-logged viewers diminishes return. I would also expect the growing distaste for the owner's antics additionally diminishes a pleasant experience for some. So returns in value for all involved, in short, is not growing but decreasing. It doesn't seem a trend useful for maintaining engagement, and certainly not for growing it.

damnesian 3y ago

The garden wall just grew a few more feet. from the vantagepoint of Twitter, the glass-half-full view is it will force idle browsers to serve up their data by forcing them to create accounts. But the glass-half-empty view they seem to be ignoring is the out of sight, out of mind principle. The less exposure to the larger public conversation, the less we will think about twitter, the less we will wonder what people are saying on it.

Sai_ 3y ago

Muck Fusk.

nh23423fefe 3y ago
resist zero effort commenting

moritzwarhier 3y ago

Funny thing is, shortly after Musk took over, they "made an effort" to spend some pennies on removing the login wall. Wasn't that related to this George Hotz personality? Whatever, I am not especially surprised by any part of how this played out. But I'd still like to say: 1984 is treated as an instruction manual today for tech marketing. And of course sadly and increasingly for politics, when democracy has often been reduced to a competition for the most convincing lie. Users are trapped. For a while, there was no login wall anymore... this is now reverted. Mind you, governments, police, local authorities, they all were keen to adopt twitter for distributing short text messages with a payload size of 1KB and below.