Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.
Too late, already have a Mastadon account.
I got one and I wasn't even on Twitter. Also all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
I suspect the real reason is that they are afraid of losing existing followers.
all those people that say Mastodon is hard must have some severe learning disability.
This kind of take is one of many reasons why activitypub protocols are not more widely adopted. You practically need to work in tech to understand half of what's going on. I don't think it's appropriate to say people must have a severe learning disability if they're struggling with understanding or if they simply don't want to spend the time to learn when they run into people sharing takes like this.
Strange, it still shows a signup screen for me...
It's kind of funny when you look at this "What's happening" artwork from the lens of Twitter having an existential crisis.
Must have moved enough infrastructure off Google.
"Whoops, accidentally DDOS'd m'self there. Better unfuck that."
Best $44 bil ever spent 🙄
I still can't believe he thought it was a good idea to hold a poll asking users if he should be involved with the platform. Imagine spending $44 billion to be told to fuck off.
He has a lot of narcissistic traits. I'm sure he was expecting a deluge of "of course we love you, you're a genius and real life Tony Stark, please make our bird app better!" That kind of genuine adoration is one of the few things he can't just buy outright, and he used to get it, but that well has been drying up as other car companies catch up to Tesla on EVs and their own products stagnate or get worse. Meanwhile, SpaceX's last big public event was a rocket blowing up, which they could try to spin, but it also destroyed their launch pad because they ignored lessons that NASA learned in the 60's. I'm sure in his mind all the bad press as people have started to realize what a shithead he is was just haters who were jealous of him, so surely if he just gives his fans an opportunity to express their opinions he'll get lots of positive responses, right?
lmaooooooooo.
Seems like a "it's easier to just turn that feature back on than try to fix what it broke" kind of thing.
I think that this would be better suited for a tech news community, but, I'm not going to remove it at this point.
It did seem like they were speedrunning towards getting people to ignore twitter links.
As far as I'm concerned, they still have. As a non-Twitter user, not only have I already decided the platform wasn't for me, now it's a question mark whether Musk will wake up tomorrow and turn off access again. The simplest solution is to double down on continuing to ignore Twitter.