Twitter has started blocking unregistered users
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It’s not clear if this is a bug or an intentional update.

cross-posted from: https://radiation.party/post/32518

[ sourced from The Verge ]

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Lol. “Town Square”. Hah.

Honestly, thank you, Elon. Now I’m not even tempted to visit that toxic hellscape echo chamber of awful shit.

Bastard somehow did something that’ll probably have a more positive effect on my mental health.

This is a net positive (for me), but it’s still fucking dumb, and his fault. “Too many sites were scraping us :(” Yeah, dude, that’s what happens when you pull the “API is only for the wealthy now” nonsense.

I swear, this could be prescient, actually. Could easily see Huffman pulling this shit within the next few weeks. (Lol, I wouldn’t put it past him to do it tomorrow.)

The advertisers must love this.

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He kind of already has implemented something like this. If you ever try and load a mobile reddit thread in your browser, you’re greeted with a download the app-wall like 50% or more of the time.

it’s better in the app

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