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So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.

Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related

Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/

Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's what I'm experiencing. Every tweet and even going to the main url results in a redirect to a log in splash page.

[–] partial_accumen 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well if that's the case Twitter is as dead to me.

Spez has talked about how he's trying to model Reddit on Musk's "success" with Twitter.

It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk's plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.

[–] Augustiner 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…

[–] AbidanYre 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People have a hard time with the fact that the richest man in the world isn't a genius.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot 3 points 1 year ago

I remember when the richest man in the world was the guy that invented the Blue Screen of Death.

[–] Aviandelight 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe not a secret play but definitely a dick move by Elon that surely benefits him.

[–] zeppo 13 points 1 year ago

Twitter is way more prominent than reddit. I doubt that there's a secret plan

If anything, Splez is too dense to notice that Musk seems to be intentionally/unintentionally ruining Twitter. It's really hard to imagine how someone could look at "ad revenue down 70%" and think wow, that's what we need to emulate!

[–] Oswald 3 points 1 year ago

To second this, it seems to be happening to me today too, as of this morning.