I just saw the following on Mastodon. Mind you, this is a boosted post, not a toot.
It says:
Celeste, AKA DJ Celrock!: Boosting Today in Twitter (TodayInTwitter): WHAT A CLOWN SHOW!
You can now no longer look at tweets signed out. Seriously. This is the stupidest thing he’s ever done. Worse than killing third-party clients IMO. This will KILL Twitter’s traffic and hinder its ad sales greatly.
Image 1: Breaking: Twitter now blocks all access from signed out users
My first thought is similar to what the original is. While I’ve not advertised on Twitter, there re probably tons of people who aren’t logged in to the platform either because they don’t have an account, they deleted it, or maybe they logged out because they have no plans of using it.
Whatever the reason, this is a person’s right. I wonder how that’s going to work in news articles now? I’ve read articles on KNX that interested me, and saw tweets. I’m not signed in to any of my twitter accounts via IOS except using the app. But the web embeds the tweets as part of the article. So how does that work?
If this is indeed true, this might be the nail in Twitter’s coffin, and may cause its final demise.
Let me know what your experience is. I’m not saying anything that I’m not sure of here, and I have no accompanying article. If this changes and I see an article, I’ll be sure to post it if I feel its of value.
We’ll be in touch!
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Well as a twitter reader, its another step to read the stuff I need to.
So glad I am primarilly a wordpress user.
I used facebook and twitter for various tests.
I have a mastodon but thats just for kicks.
Due to various things with myself, eyes, head, other things, I am certainly not increasing my desk time.
In fact as things go on, there maybe a time I reduce it.
In fact I really don’t miss the extra time I do do have here.
While I do spend a little time working I mainly play.
Today for example I have a few updates to do but I don’t want to sit here all day like I used to.