So this must be a regional thing since I can get around the login page using a VPN. My personal opinion on the matter is that I'm at least expecting backlash from governments since officials like using twitter for official announcements. I do not expect this playing well for twitter since they are holding a public forum hostage.
this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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I believe this was an old implementation, seems to be rolled out in batches. Anyhow fuck twitter as well
Thank god, I deleted my twitter account this week.
Same here. I only browse, so I don't have an account and I don't plan on making one. This sucks.
Does it? It will only help to kill it off faster.
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I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. It's readily apparent that Musk and Spez don't understand their product. Like, at all. Governments, politicians, NGOs, and businesses use Twitter because of the broad audience. It works as a platform for announcements because anyone can access it.
Locking it down to only Twitter users kills this. It isn't going to help ad revenue either to reduce the audience.
I saw some people say this was a tech issue and not a policy change, and that better be the case if Twitter wants to survive. They lose their last competitive advantage otherwise.
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time to delete my already dead accounts
For you discorders, I noticed that fxtwitter is also broken due to an API change. Thanks Elon!
I wish Nitter plugins worked for Firefox Android.
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I noticed this too when I posted a Twitter link. Not a fan and I'll probably find a work around rather than just posting Twitter links anymore 🤷🏻♂️
I deleted my mostly unused account shortly after Musk started showing his crazy. Anything that makes it harder to use it accidentally is fine by me.
Especially once you are mostly on alternative sites, privacy redirect is top tier.
I could have sworn I read that the project was on hold, and it was advisable to use LibRedirect instead.
What nitter instance are you using? I'm getting an error message indicating an empty json document.
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Commenting here so I can do this tomorrow!
Either, or both. The Fediverse is the way forward for government announcements.
It's pretty wild. Users are inherently lazy. Give a decent product where you can have a positive ROI on user engagement and sit back to rake it in.
But actively be hostile to users and they are fickle as can be.
I was on Reddit for 16 years with over 100k karma.
And I've deleted the app I was using for it which they broke and switched app and habits over to Lemmy in less than 24 hours.
Nothing like hubris with a dash of greed to ensure success for one's competition.