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You can't view content there without an account now. Not sure why people aren't making a bigger deal about this. Acres of content were removed from the public
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
You can't view content there without an account now.
Not sure why people aren't making a bigger deal about this. Acres of content were removed from the public web overnight, and people (like journalists) who still treat this like it's some sort of public service seem clueless to this.
Rate limiting is minor compared to that.
- sp332 3y agoThey already reverted that. https://www.engadget.com/twitter-quietly-backtracks-on-requiring-users-to-log-in-to-see-tweets-135230558.html https://www.engadget.com/twitter-quietly-backtracks-on-requi...
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoI still can't view any content without signing in.
- tradewinds 3y agoThis comment thread started with someone explaining why they won't use Twitter, and now you're arguing from the standpoint of someone who essentially doesn't use it anyway.
- sp332 3y agoI can't load tweets on people's profile pages, but navigating to a specific tweet works. That probably kills a lot of indexers.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoProbably they just wanted to fix the problem that existing tweets referenced in news articles, etc. were now unavailable, but at the same time keep things locked out to non-account holders generally.