Twitter Monetization

hish2021 · 06-30-2023, 11:22 AM

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/2...account-tweets

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... Now, regardless of how you try to access the website — be that the homepage or a direct link to a tweet or profile — you’re immediately met with a sign-in prompt that completely obscures your view. It doesn’t even tease the content with a swift redirect. You simply can’t see anything.

Twitter has yet to make a public announcement, so it’s currently unclear if this is an intentional update or another technical mishap. ...

business_kid · 06-30-2023, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

Odd; works here. Occasionally rate limiting kicks in, but IIRC that gives a different message. (Also, there are other Nitter instances which can be used when that happens.)

I got through on one of the European based servers. It made me ever so glad I don't have twitter. I have one working mirror bookmarked. I'll probably never use it.

mjolnir · 06-30-2023, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by hish2021

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/2...account-tweets

There is some speculation that the change was to keep LLMs from training on the site. Have no idea if that's true. Is this site viewable without logging in?

mjolnir · 07-01-2023, 04:03 PM

Elon Musk

"@elonmusk
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
12:01 PM · Jul 1, 2023"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672

hish2021 · 07-01-2023, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by mjolnir

There is some speculation that the change was to keep LLMs from training on the site. Have no idea if that's true. Is this site viewable without logging in?

When I'm not logged in, visiting any links to a Twitter post (example: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675187969420828672), show me a login page. Can't view the post at all.

hish2021 · 07-02-2023, 06:59 AM

Interesting take on Musk's attempts to limit data scraping: https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...54646942896128.

boughtonp · 07-02-2023, 08:29 AM

hish2021, you may like to consider the differences between post #51 and post #46, whilst reminding yourself of what you wrote in post #50...

mjolnir · 07-02-2023, 09:24 AM

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Originally Posted by hish2021

Interesting take on Musk's attempts to limit data scraping: https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...54646942896128.

Interesting link.

teckk · 07-02-2023, 10:46 AM

https://nitter.net/elonmusk/status/1674226170488057856

That gives me "Tweet not found"

Edit:
So does this:
https://nitter.net/MikeBenzCyber/sta...54646942896128

boughtonp · 07-02-2023, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by teckk

That gives me "Tweet not found"

Yes, because Elon Musk has turned off guest access, thus breaking Nitter.

I guess it was just unlucky timing... or maybe mjolnir is actually Elon... ;)

teckk · 07-02-2023, 04:02 PM

Oh ok.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/tw...o-view-tweets/

Shows how much attention I pay to twitter/facebook.

News aggregator sites will need to stop quoting/linking twitter feeds then. It won't drive me to sign up.

Jan K. · 07-02-2023, 04:11 PM

Twitter Monetization?

Just stop paying rents and bills. Will probably save a few bucks... for a while...

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/22/...y-for-twitter/

hish2021 · 07-03-2023, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by boughtonp

hish2021, you may like to consider the differences between post #51 and post #46, whilst reminding yourself of what you wrote in post #50...

Post #46 was this link, https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/2...account-tweets, and a quote from there.

Post #51 was this link, https://twitter.com/MikeBenzCyber/st...54646942896128, and my comment: "Interesting take on Musk's attempts to limit data scraping"

Post #50 was a response to mjolnir's post #48.

For post #51, I was logged into my Twitter account (as I usually am). For post #50, I checked whether I could view the link I provided without logging into my Twitter account by using a standby browser.

rkelsen · 07-06-2023, 10:34 AM

Business genius, I tell you: https://www.morningstar.com/news/mar...-twitter-users

Maybe the beginning of the end for Twitter: https://about.instagram.com/blog/ann...m-text-feature... now that is a clever business person. Not that I'm a great fan of Zuckerberg either (still haven't signed up to FB), but I can recognise cleverness when I see it.

Edit: 5 million users have signed up in the first 4 hours!

rkelsen · 07-11-2023, 02:18 PM

They haven't even started advertising it yet:

https://www.quiverquant.com/threadstracker/

What is the grand genius of business going to do about this?