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

zachleat, 10 months ago

@simevidas Woof. This is a very bad thing.

TritTriton, 10 months ago

@simevidas Hopefully it’s just another “bug” among all that occurred since “this guy” took T over, and it will be fixed soon.

But it’s still a clear reminder that nobody can count on Twitter anymore as a communication channel.

luism, 10 months ago

@simevidas I am still wondering why are people still using it.

FinchHaven, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Yeah, I went so far as to open a new private window and search for "Musk tweets"

I couldn't even view #ElonMusk's profile page on #Twitter without logging in first

Which I had no interest in doing

No great loss

nimbus5000, 10 months ago

@simevidas

I can tell you this ... I ain't logging in.

weyoun6, 10 months ago

@simevidas it makes sense from their perspective and it was always just a matter of time. Remember, scraping is legal if the content is visible without authentication. Musk wants the wall around "his" content and believes he can follow the path of Facebook, Instagram, et al.

squeevening, 10 months ago

@simevidas should be the death knell. Journalists won't be able to embed tweets.

jhv, 10 months ago

@simevidas So it's a walled garden now? JFC, WTF. 😭

JustinDerrick, 10 months ago

@simevidas Billions of inbound links from across the entire internet are now essentially dead, eliminating another revenue stream, and sprinting into obscurity.

If I didn’t know any better, I would say that someone is being paid to purposely scuttle the bird site.

VHasch, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Elon should just give up and lock the door unless making a secretive platform for the next insurrection is his goal.

$44 billion would be a bargain to take down the US.

aroom, 10 months ago

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Sassafrazz, 10 months ago

@aroom @simevidas Exactly. One of the few reasons I’ve seen tweets linked lately, was to local fire, police, weather, school etc. messages.

They should take a harder look at bailing out from the bird site to alternatives. If they haven’t started to do that already.

ShinyBlueThing, 10 months ago

@simevidas I'm still sort-of on twitter (I have a few friends who are scared to move or really set in their ways), and I posted an FYI about that. Maybe this will get folks to move elsewhere.

thetechtutor, 10 months ago

@simevidas For many other reasons prior to this catastrophic decision, I deleted my #TwitterAccounts –all 3 of them - and joined the #TwitterMigration to #Mastodon

I love it here. Im relieved that I won’t be able to view media from embedded tweets anymore: I don’t want to give a platform run by a #billionaire #whitesupremacist any more clicks.

I understand this impacts many #journalists who use the platform to report #news. I therefore hope they will migrate over to Mastodon.

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.

thejacenallen, 10 months ago

@simevidas delete twitter

josephramoney, 10 months ago

@simevidas

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

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.

aka_quant_noir, 10 months ago

@simevidas

May Musk chip and shatter.

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.

filby, 10 months ago

@simevidas I have no idea who this even benefits

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.

clif, 10 months ago

@simevidas

Roucan, 10 months ago

@simevidas

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

Knelson, 10 months ago

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