Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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    Watching Musk continue to fuck Twitter into the ground is like watching a really bad skier go down a black diamond trail on their face.

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    Looks like this might apply only to individual tweets. If you want to view someone’s main page, you still have to sign in.

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      Probably I won’t be sharing tweets anytime soon. Add in the fact that there’s no official announcement, they might reverse this in 15 minutes when Musk’s next tantrum starts. So why bother.

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        Now that you pointed it out, I have no clue how people/businesses who rely on twitter can continue to do so with the utter uncertainty the platform runs on daily.

        I know they’ve been leaving in droves, but it has been insane how it has been run these past few months.

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          I assume the problem is a lack of alternative they can unify around. If Meta ships something definitive enough, especially for teams that already have a FB presence, there might be a mass migration.

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          The worst is that local fire and police departments often use it to relay info to the public, so I can’t even see their messages without a fucking account.

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    Musk: incompetent and incapable of recognizing his incompetence, because the media had been sucking his dick for so long.

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      I’ve been slowly reading Pete Walker’s book Complex PTSD, and he has some interesting ideas about personality disorders and developmental trauma, so I don’t want to start waving around the word “narcissism” as if Elon’s behaviour can’t be caused by ongoing environmental pressures, but there are significant indicators from employees, and even his first wife, that he’s been like this for a long time.

      He’s just never been as exposed as he is right now, since his employees have bent over backwards to keep him away from making product decisions.

      Elon’s been sucking his own dick since before any of us ever heard of him. Really, the media’s just been sitting around watching him do it.

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        His mother started telling him he was a genius that would change the world - from the age of 4. Repeatedly telling a young child with ASD that… I think it’s pretty safe to say that is going to produce narcissistic tendencies.

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      incompetent and incapable

      He was truly good at getting venture capital and at getting the ultra rich to hand him over cash. He was (and may still be) good at hiring skilled sycophants.

      He’s a horrible manager and an awful decision maker.

      His true skill was applying unreal amounts of pressure to very skilled people to pull off momentous things and being very lucky that they didn’t explode in his face.

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        Same here.

        Aha - it’s potentially a smart solution for them. Specific tweet links - the thing that they were losing the most traffic from, possibly - still work fine without login. You can’t do just general browsing, though. This is what the article mentioned but weren’t 100% clear about it.

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          I see. So I guess that will maybe stop google from deindexing them. I’m wondering how long it will take Elmo to figure out that this will block indexing new tweets.

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      But… I thought nitter had figured out that they could just use the API keys in the official Twitter apps to continue using the API?

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    Twitter’s move comes a day before Meta launches its own text-based app called Threads.

    Is this the cage match I was promised? Boo

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      The irony is that Zuck has wanted Twitter for a long time. He was literally the wolf at the gate for over a decade. And in less than a year, Elon gave Zuck the perfect opportunity to strike.

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        Is it sad that I would honestly prefer Mark III Zuckerborg as the owner of Twitter? Both are far from ideal, but he’s the lesser of two egos.

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    @holo_nexus as of 5 minutes ago it still prompts login and canceling takes you to the login page. Clicked an article link and got shot over there so I looked. maybe it’s being rolled out in stages. But screw them only person I still liked to keep up with over there was Mark Hamill.

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    What is going on over there?

    They’ve got to be hemorrhaging money. Twitter Blue isn’t working, and big advertisers aren’t going to want to spend money on a site that’s so unstable.

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    It’s actually pretty impressive how they’re yoloing so many changes just at the whim of Elon. Eventually maybe they’ll actually get to good changes

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    @holo_nexus I wonder what they were thinking. They probably fired someone randomly, for justice. Higher ups in the meeting room: “But this random dude doing cable management did not stop us!”; Another voice: “Then fire him.”; Modern problems require modern solution…