Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

They actually likely did this due to SEO. Google was allegedly in the process of removing tweets from the search index because they weren’t accessible. This happens automatically for most sites.

This is hilarious. You don't change your mind about a new policy unless it was absolutely terrible and threatened your business. I can't see twitter surviving much longer; how are they even going to make money?

A lot of government agencies use Twitter for breaking news, notifications, and alerts that they're trying to get out as quickly as possible to as many people as possible, such as tornado warnings, amber alerts, traffic conditions, etc. I can't imagine they'd stick around a platform that requires logging in to view these messages.

Business genius.

Irrelevant. Nitter still not working.

These companies know that the power is with the people. We just need regulars who are not tech educated to get themselves educated and see how the power shifts from these companies to FOSS and decentralized platforms.

And the number of people surprised...?

When you do something abysmally stupid, then have to walk it back, not saying anything is a lot safer than trying to explain.

Didn't like not being on googles results page did ya Elmo?

Damn it's like whoever is taking these decisions has no idea what he's doing

I still can’t see any tweets. Maybe it’s a Canada thing..

One does not simply mess with Google!

And yet Fritter doesn't work right now. Are they blocking 3rd party apps like Reddit, or is it something with Fritter?

Not here...

My eyeballs are scraping this thread at this very instant!

So trying out changes to a platform isn’t a bad thing and can lead to a lot of good optimization, but usually you don’t just push them onto the entire user base without testing/marketing research to try and anticipate their effects.

How exactly do these changes make it to production without being evaluated? I know blame is mostly on Musk here but do the software devs really never stand up and say “we’ll look into it and get back to you in a few weeks”?

Lol too little too late.

Twitter 2.0 is really just a startup company

always be fail whalin'

Still doesn't work for me?

Elon is speedrunning bankruptcy right now.

Tech giants fighting each other.

Interesting to see how they have all managed a system with each other that is so hard to switch around.