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

  • T156@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not that much of a surprise that they would. Why would anyone bother joining and using Twitter if they can’t see what it is that they’re signing up for, or justify why they should join in the first place?

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      1 year ago

      Instagram almost works that way. Sometimes you can see a bit of content, but not much, even if you have direct link from friend.

      I do not have account - just of the reasons you mentioned - I cannot justify if there’s anything interesting for me.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve been avoiding Pinterest URLs for so long, couldn’t even tell you what the site is now. The login requirement definitely made me proactively avoid them and just treat all their links as spam in the search results.

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      1 year ago

      TBF nowadays the move has a certain logic. By keeping your content private you keep it away from search engines and LLMs. Twitter does not rely on search engines to drive traffic to it, and it’s a large, already established platform (current efforts to drive it into the ground aside). If any platform should be able to go private, they should.