I noticed this yesterday when any link I clicked took me to the twitter home page. T’is a shame. I don’t want to sign up.
If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.
Twitter didn’t immediately make a public announcement, making it unclear if this was an intentional update or another technical mishap. Later on Friday, however, Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted, claiming in a reply that the change is a “Temporary emergency measure,” blaming “data pillaging” for degrading the service for all users.
It smells like Elon egging on the verified-everything internet. Biometric face scanning incoming?
How do you feel about this?
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It IS annoying.... but on the other hand, I'm not wasting as much time reading Twitter posts that shouldn't have been linked in the first place.... For now, I count that as a win for me.