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cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518
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Because what Twitter really needs right now is less engagement.
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.
Which it never should have been in the first place. There should be some kind of publicly funded twitter like clone used for this purpose.
This is also true for breaking news as well. I got better info on 1/6, Belarusian protests, and the attempted coup in Russia than I ever could have reading the news.
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.
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.
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.
These social media giants seem to be self destructing themselves on purpose.
A culture entirely based on growth will do that eventually.
Seriously though, what is causing all of these various media platforms to ramp up the attacks on their users so obviously? Reddit blocking apps, Twitter login-hiding posts, Google shutting down adblockers. Is it coordinated? Does it just make sense to make a rush for money when every company is doing the same?
A lot of the tech companies were slammed by investors over the last two years for missing their earnings and many of them are still struggling to go back to 2021 optimistic growth rates. The layoffs last year have also cost them a lot of their best talent, so the quality of innovation, decision making, and execution has suffered. You are now left with a bunch of older executives who never really understood that it was their younger talent that was the core of their company’s success, so they fall back on older methods like increasing prices and cutting costs to try and lead the board / shareholders into thinking that their ridiculous executive salary packages are somehow justified.
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.
Just waiting for Google to decide to kill off YouTube or Gmail for not being profitable or something
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.
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.
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.
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.
I tried to set my browser user-agent to the Google Bot one and got a “Nothing to see here” page. :/
Google is happy to link to news sites with a paywall, I don’t see why they’d have an issue with a free signup.
That’s how it used to be. Musk wanted to remove the login prompt after some browsing but they saw the conversion numbers on the feature and kept it.
I’m sure they give the content to the google bots, just not end users. So you see a teaser, click on it, then have to log in.
Screw that, I’m out!
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.
I think that is at least what Elon claims. Bots definitely can explode your site as many new lemmy admins have realized. That being said, Elon also bought the company knowing that so it’s funny he thinks it’s a problem now.