So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.
Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect
Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb/related
Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.
Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That’s the end of that, I guess. Most people aren’t going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.
I just checked a random news article and embedded tweets seem to be working still. But when you click the tweet you get taken to the login page.
This is pretty terrible really. Governments, cities, states use twitter for alerts and news. Now I have to agree to be tracked and monetized to view information from my government. I think everyone needs to write to all your cities, states, schools, law enforcement etc and demand they stop using twitter for anything. Our taxes should not go to padding twitter’s wallets.
Now that Twitter has become what it is, I’m somewhat offended that my local government makes announcements on it. Hopefully this will be an impetus for them to stop… although many agencies use Facebook too, and FB and IG have been this way for years.
Lemmy is exactly what government bodies need. Anyone from other instances can see, vote and comment. They can limit sign up to only employees and their users immediately have an official seal of authenticity. @obama@whitehouse.gov would be so cool.
I’ve worked in local level government communication. Most of the time your just trying to hit as many places as possible in a hopeless effort to keep an interested public informed. The price is usually low, the audience is there, and information can be duplicated to other platforms easily, so it generally makes sense to use social media.
That said, low engagement on a platform would be a great reason to consider cutting it out. A citizen with feedback is enough to spark the flame too.
As much as I hate the idea of Yet Another Social Media App, I kind of wish there was some sort of official government-specific platform that was only available to state/local/federal government(s) or organizations for making important announcements. No memberships required (other than posters or commenters), no likes, upvotes, or retweeting or whatever, just postings of information that people can get to from anywhere. Something completely untied from any corporate entities.
They could easily have their own websites based on Mastodon or Lemmy, not federated with anything.
The Brazilian government send SMS to people for alerts. It’s independent of apps, and everyone with a phone can get them.
Seems like a good solution for important warnings.
Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?
That’s what I’m experiencing. Every tweet and even going to the main url results in a redirect to a log in splash page.
Well if that’s the case Twitter is as dead to me.
Spez has talked about how he’s trying to model Reddit on Musk’s “success” with Twitter.
It would be hilarious if Musk set up Spez to take the publicity fall to cover Musk’s plan to force Twitter for authenticated consumption only.
Twitter is way more prominent than reddit. I doubt that there’s a secret plan
If anything, Splez is too dense to notice that Musk seems to be intentionally/unintentionally ruining Twitter. It’s really hard to imagine how someone could look at “ad revenue down 70%” and think wow, that’s what we need to emulate!
Why does there always have to be a secret play involved with musk? Can’t they just both be incompetent at leading a social media company? This is just another example of Hanlon‘s Razor…
My statement is use of speech clarifying what @rooster_butt@lemm.ee is communicating, and its been confirmed as “yes”.
Good question, I have no idea. I wasn’t even sure this was going to post. I just pasted the images in from the clipboard.
Fuck Twitter. Garbage anyway.
The day I realized it was actively trying to make me furious by pushing notifications of incendiary tweets from people I didn’t know existed or cared about writing about stuff I didn’t find interesting but extremely toxic and offensive I stopped using it. It was before Elon took over, but when he did I deleted the account. It’s such a toxic hellscape, I wish the official outlets I followed would just publish to Mastodon instead, but I’d rather just not see anything from that page, it’s absolutely not worth it.
It’s the sewage of the Internet, and the rats there brutally fight each other for the silliest of reasons.
The only reason I use it is that not enough prominent people are on Mastodon and for me it’s only good for being a quick way of seeing what’s going on in media and politics.
