Because what Twitter really needs right now is less engagement.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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They're trying to juice up their stats for advertisers. More registered users = more surveillance capitalism.
This is hilarious. The biggest inconvenience this will cause, is people asking "can you post a screenshot? I dont use Twitter."
It is kind of a disaster for emergencies. Twitter is the defacto social network whenever any disaster strikes round here, the sheer volume of people, emergency services and the versatility of hashtags make it great for that.
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Well, that makes it even easier to never visit Twitter again. Right now I was sometimes tempted to follow a link and see what it was about, but I'll be happy to quit that habbit too.
Right? It's annoying but I've seen a few people aggregate news to a bunch of Twitter links. Now they won't be able to do that and engagement will go down even further.
Twitter users can't post to the general public anymore. Their posts are visible to users logged into Twitter only. That should render Twitter useless to whoever wants to post something to people on the Internet. I wonder what journalists, companies, or politicians think about it.
Welp, this kills Twitter for me permanently. I closed my account after Mush took it over but sometimes I’d check out tweets and replies my Discord friends would share. Big tech just keeps shooting itself in the foot lately.
These social media giants seem to be self destructing themselves on purpose.
A culture entirely based on growth will do that eventually.
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Man seeing all these big websites kill themselves slowly with poor decisions, kind of gives me hope for the future of the internet. Now we just need facebook to really mess up, and things will be even better.
Right, monopolies crumbling will give space to innovation. No one company will buy up smaller company and then put their innovations behind closed doors, never to be seen again.
Though I doubt google wiill go under for what YouTube is doing. Google is stilll huge and profitable. Most likely it will outlast all of it's peers from the 2000 dotcom boom.
Twitter, on the other hand, well. It's on its 9th live and is hanging by the ledge.
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That's certainly one way to begin a social media detox along with Reddit's idiocy over third party apps. This will make it much easier to ignore Twitter since I deleted my account there and have no intention of signing up again just to view tweets.
This feels like a big milestone in their enshittification journey, and also in the maturity of the fediverse. Part of what made Twitter so widely popular I think is that tweets were available to everyone, not just the few people who were online enough to actually have an account. To lock things behind a wall after so many people have left seems like a bad idea.
Thank god. Hopefully Elon Musk will require a blue checkmark to be able to make new tweets.
Can already tell you this is negatively affecting furries. A lot of people use Twitter as a platform for furry art and discussion. Now that Twitter can't be accessed by the public, furry art can't be spread as easily theough embed, and this hurts furry artists in the long run.
Actually, more generally this could hurt artists period.
Also breaks nitter. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/916#issuecomment-1614389399
Huh, in that issue thread someone posted a tweet from the devs stating that it's temporary, for what that's worth.
That was the first thing I checked after reading this headline. Sad. It looks like you can still get some pages but they probably aren't updating.
Will this affect Google search? That’s got to be a good driver for Twitter right?
Maybe trying to get people that end up there after a search to sign up would be a better tactic.
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Good, I don't want to use Twitter anyway. :)
This could be companies scraping Twitter to feed large language models. If so, I'm glad we're keeping Twitter out of the corpus for whatever the next GPT is
They cut off API access for anyone not willing to pay 45k a month, then are surprised when people use bots to scrape the site instead of using the API. So they then rate limit their users. Hilarious.
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Annoying as F. Especially because so many "news" websites just embed tweets into their story.
I'm sure this will work out well for them. The legacy social sites are really on a roll this summer.
I've never used Twitter, but on occasion been linked to something there. So if that's intentional they're killing off that kind of traffic on purpose. It seems all these corpo social media sites are monetizing themselves to death.
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I mean it kind of already was, right? You could view specific tweets and a couple replies before a banner showed up asking you to sign in and preventing you from scrolling further. It did the same thing if you tried to click on certain things. I had a firefox extension to bypass it which worked wonders. I assume there'll probably be a new one for this.
sigh
Ugh. I hate Twitter, but there are still a few stubborn accounts (that aren't on Mastodon) I follow via the app, Fritter. Fortunately nothing that's going to kill me, but rather just annoy me.
Seems like nitter still works. Interesting how everyone, YouTube, Twitter, Reddit seem to try to to squeeze more money out of their platforms by making themselves shittier.
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This is what happens when you don't pay your cloud hosting providers. They start throttling you before cutting you off entirely.
They're frantically trying to get Twitter capacity down to match the current throughput. It has nothing to do with scraping.
It's a weird day when I read a read a Tim Sweeney quote and agree with him.
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