Twitter was one of the few socials where government agencies could publish to the masses. Everyday Twitter erodes its worth for short-term wealth.

“Oh no, I can’t read anything on Twitter!”

-No one with good mental health.

Musk claimed that it's temporary. Either way this is an absolute disaster. This must be costing them insane amounts of money.

Because that works so well for Pinterest right? I mean, we all have Pinterest accounts so we can access all that content on Pinterest don't we?

Oh... we don't? People add -site:pinterest.com to their google searches to avoid the site entirely? Well then... dang.

This is a much more extreme version of the same reason I never used Quora. I'd be allowed on one page, but after that, clicking on any internal link in the site would push a "create an account" dialogue and wouldn't let me click off to see the content. The way around that was just reloading the page, but the irritation and tiny extra step was enough to stop me from browsing that site. Just checked right now and Quora doesn't do this on PC, but it does on my phone.

Now Twitter won't let you on the site at all without logging in.

LinusTechTips just had an issue with this on WAN show tonight where Luke was trying to show a video on Twitter but he wasn't signed in on his stream laptop and Linus was remote so he couldn't share his screen.

Luckily the creator of the video they wanted to show had also posted it to YouTube so they were able to show it anyway, but it still disrupted the flow of the show and led them to not be able to use the platform as a news source.

So... Less ad exposure?

saw this too! looks like it broke a ton of tweet embeds too... Muskrat says its to mitigate scrapers but--this feels heavy handed

I mean they have to protect all that content that they've been given for free, right?

• spez probably

Guess I’m not going to Twitter anymore

Good! This is a true death knell.

Good. Finally that one friend of mine will stop posting Twitter links and I can blacklist it again.

Good, faster Twitter dies, the better.

Holy shit, I thought it was just a bug on my end. Sometimes I wonder: what has ELON been smoking?

It’s starting to feel like LinkedIn. Can’t view a page without the person getting notified you looked.

Does this make it impossible to read posts from accounts that have blocked you in incognito mode?

The walled gardens are closing their gates...