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cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518
[ sourced from The Verge ]
- anji ( @anji@lemmy.anji.nl ) 51•1 year ago
Because what Twitter really needs right now is less engagement.
- nodester ( @nodester@partizle.com ) 12•1 year ago
They’re trying to juice up their stats for advertisers. More registered users = more surveillance capitalism.
- howler ( @howler@beehaw.org ) English49•1 year ago
This is hilarious. The biggest inconvenience this will cause, is people asking “can you post a screenshot? I dont use Twitter.”
- grahamsz ( @grahamsz@kbin.social ) 23•1 year ago
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.
- Cartman ( @Cartman@lemmywinks.com ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- coolin ( @coolin@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
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.
- comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) English45•1 year ago
Lol. “Town Square”. Hah.
Honestly, thank you, Elon. Now I’m not even tempted to visit that toxic hellscape echo chamber of awful shit.
Bastard somehow did something that’ll probably have a more positive effect on my mental health.
This is a net positive (for me), but it’s still fucking dumb, and his fault. “Too many sites were scraping us :(” Yeah, dude, that’s what happens when you pull the “API is only for the wealthy now” nonsense.
I swear, this could be prescient, actually. Could easily see Huffman pulling this shit within the next few weeks. (Lol, I wouldn’t put it past him to do it tomorrow.)
The advertisers must love this.
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@beehaw.org ) English12•1 year ago
He kind of already has implemented something like this. If you ever try and load a mobile reddit thread in your browser, you’re greeted with a download the app-wall like 50% or more of the time.
it’s better in the app
- snowbell ( @snowbell@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Better for who?
- NotSteve_ ( @NotSteve_@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Reddit’s profits of course
- r00ty ( @r00ty@kbin.life ) 5•1 year ago
Watching him destroy that site is quite astonishing. I’ve never had an account with twitter. It never appealed to me. Making it a requirement to have an account to even see content isn’t going to convince me to sign up.
Since many companies use twitter as their mouthpiece on the internet. I wonder how they’re going to react when they’re now only able to engage with registered users. I’d be surprised if this works out well for the company to be honest.
- Shhalahr ( @Shhalahr@beehaw.org ) 4•1 year ago
Making it a requirement to have an account to even see content isn’t going to convince me to sign up.
He’ll, if can’t even tell what’s on it, why would I want to sign up?
- TheButtonJustSpins ( @TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub ) English2•1 year ago
Huffman?
- comicallycluttered ( @comicallycluttered@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Lol, probably should have specified. My bad.
Steve Huffman. You may know him as /u/spez on reddit.
- Elbrond ( @Elbrond@feddit.nl ) English33•1 year ago
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.
- MagicShel ( @MagicShel@programming.dev ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- esaru ( @esaru@beehaw.org ) English29•1 year ago
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.
- Kuroneko ( @Kuroneko@beehaw.org ) English29•1 year ago
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.
- Cat ( @Cat@kbin.social ) 21•1 year ago
These social media giants seem to be self destructing themselves on purpose.
- Celediel ( @Celediel@slrpnk.net ) 6•1 year ago
A culture entirely based on growth will do that eventually.
- kmkz_ninja ( @kmkz_ninja@kbin.social ) 2•1 year ago
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?
- morry040 ( @morry040@kbin.social ) 8•1 year ago
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.
- Tester ( @Tester@lemmy-test.223308.xyz ) English18•1 year ago
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.
- Liempong_pagong ( @Liempong_pagong@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
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.
- Neotecha (She/her) ( @neotecha@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
Just waiting for Google to decide to kill off YouTube or Gmail for not being profitable or something
- Disgustoid ( @Disgustoid@startrek.website ) English15•1 year ago
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.
- arctic pie (he/him) ( @arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org ) English14•1 year ago
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.
- TerryTPlatypus ( @TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
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
- cavemeat ( @cavemeat@beehaw.org ) English4•1 year ago
Huh, in that issue thread someone posted a tweet from the devs stating that it’s temporary, for what that’s worth.
- CanadaPlus ( @CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ) English3•1 year ago
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.
- thingsiplay ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) English13•1 year ago
Thank god. Hopefully Elon Musk will require a blue checkmark to be able to make new tweets.
- Qiz ( @Qiz@beehaw.org ) English10•1 year ago
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.
- rs5th ( @rs5th@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
I tried to set my browser user-agent to the Google Bot one and got a “Nothing to see here” page. :/
- abhibeckert ( @abhibeckert@beehaw.org ) English2•1 year ago
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.
- MrMonkey ( @MrMonkey@lemm.ee ) English1•1 year ago
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!
- Bldck ( @Bldck@beehaw.org ) English1•1 year ago
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.
- mrmanager ( @mrmanager@lemmy.today ) English8•1 year ago
Good, I don’t want to use Twitter anyway. :)