simevidas, 10 months ago

I have 70 links to Twitter on my website. I may need to replace them if Twitter doesn’t remove the login wall.

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pasties, 10 months ago

@simevidas As a fix for your old links you can probably reference versions on nitter.net... Guess Twitter will just have to do without inbound links... That's not important for anything right?

jomo, 10 months ago

@pasties @simevidas I like that idea, but a link to archive.{org,is} is probably a more permanent solution.

pasties, 10 months ago

@jomo @simevidas Hahah good point 👍

piebandit, 10 months ago

@jomo @pasties @simevidas a more permanent solution would be to stop using Twitter.

jomo, 10 months ago

@piebandit @pasties @simevidas no, that does not solve the problem of linking to past tweets.

xdydx, 10 months ago

@jomo @piebandit didn't say it solved ALL the current problems. They said it was the "permanent solution".

And they're correct.

@pasties @simevidas

tagomago, 10 months ago

@simevidas They been doing this on and off for years. I see it as a good thing, tho.

sol_hsa, 10 months ago

@simevidas
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tutormentor1, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Agree. If this is true, it is just plain stupid. I point to Twitter often from my blog and my newsletter. Twitter should be paying me for the free advertising! Yet, they just put up a wall and say "don't look".

pino, 10 months ago

@simevidas Again here: It was your bad move. You participated in making them as strong as they are today. You knew that such things would come sooner or later, as soon as it is possible for them.

So, no crying plz. Start learning your lesson from it instead. ;)

realcrozetva, 10 months ago

@simevidas I have so many tweets linked on my site, archiving over a decade of community discussion; this is a massive loss

radioface, 10 months ago

@simevidas I'd summarize that by saying it made one bad move and the consequences of it just keep getting revealed....

guiltmanager, 10 months ago

@simevidas this will sound mad, but, good. let twatter crash and burn behind its login wall.

BenjaminKlein, 10 months ago

@simevidas they claimed it was an emergency measure due to 3rd parties scraping their data. Not sure if that's true but it might mean they are having hardware issues or most of their users use other apps etc

Either way agree bad bad news. It's dropped a big audience and that'll force content creators out or to other services, audience will follow and you've got a + feedback loop.

ch0ccyra1n, 10 months ago

@simevidas It's probably better that you don't share links to Big Social platforms like Twitter and Instagram in the first place.

knutson_brain, 10 months ago

@simevidas Welp…

ittu, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

@simevidas

if you can't embed the tweets, replace all your tweets with screenshots. theres probably a twitter screenshot tool with login functionality to do a batch process of all your links.

Jumpmed, 10 months ago

@simevidas every time you open Twitter, you are supporting a billionaire far-right anarcho-capitalist edgelord. When the lifeguard is the one shitting in the pool, you stop going to that pool.

anishinaabe, 10 months ago

@simevidas hmmm. now why would an incredibley pretentious, insecure and motivated-by-money guy, like elon musk, do something like that 🤔

Knelson, 10 months ago

@simevidas I now have no reason to make a twitter account

Roucan, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Good thing you’re here then! End of an era, but I’m looking forward to the future.

clif, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Sassafrazz, 10 months ago

@simevidas I’m really going to miss the insightful commentary of the small number of worthwhile intellectuals who are still tweeting. But that’s their choice to stay walled up inside Elno’s dystopian menagerie for trolls. What are they holding out for? Pull the plug and move elsewhere, already.

filby, 10 months ago

@simevidas I have no idea who this even benefits

jann, 10 months ago

@simevidas If ANYONE from NOW ON attempts to amplify tweets from the birdsite by screenshooting them - to get past the login requirement, I will block them!

There is no reason anymore to share any tweet on mastodon.

aka_quant_noir, 10 months ago

@simevidas

May Musk chip and shatter.

jawarajabbi, 10 months ago

@simevidas The #Ukraine news sites on #mastodon generally link to Twitter and I think yesterday that stopped working. I refuse to create a new Twitter account so unless these folks start posting directly here I'll lose a lot of war news, unfortunately. Seems a truly stupid move commercially so it must be Musk's idea.

josephramoney, 10 months ago

@simevidas

I wonder at what point people will realize Elon Musk bought Twitter to kill Twitter

thejacenallen, 10 months ago

@simevidas delete twitter

evannakita, 10 months ago

@simevidas DeviantArt recently did something similar, and it completely screwed up my online portfolio. They aren’t requiring a login for all content, but any content they deem “mature” requires a login to view, and they’ve slapped half the stuff in my portfolio with that label, and I’m not finding a way to appeal. I don’t make adult content, but now there’s no way to present my gallery without it looking like I do, and only half of my stuff is publicly viewable now.