Steve Herman#Twitter appears to be blocking unregistered users. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets
"Temporary emergency measure," says #Twitter owner Elon Musk about the platform blocking unregistered users. "We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"
Actually, #Twitter engagement has been declining. https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-seeing-record-user-engagement-the-data-tells-a-different-story/
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Robin@w7voa gee, I can’t imagine why 🥴
EllenJS
nickapos@w7voa Musk is a scam artist, a common conman. No surprise there.
Trevor Stasik - #Marketing@w7voa Deleted my account there 6+ months ago. I still occasionally saw an ad or promoted post when lurking. Musk did me a favor and now I have no reason to even lurk.
Frank Bennett 🇯🇵@w7voa Great success! We soon are to have ONLY user want to buy veetamin pill with the BitCoin!
CodeMacLife@w7voa I’ve noticed this. I would get around 246 impressions with a tweet. Now I get 12. It’s not the place is used to be. I’ve locked my account and plan to use Mastodon as my primary place to be.
nadin brzezinski
Extinction (our fate)I'm not worried about Twitter because it's mostly nazis and bots over there. People of good will are leaving. I'm really nervous about Meta. If they manage to make a more tool-rich interface, friendlier to users, it might suck a lot of traffic over. And they can always enshittify it, monetize their version of ActivityPub, or scrape and monetize Masto users, after.
Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░@w7voa Sure, Elon.
Keith Ivey@w7voa "I meant to do that!"
0x575446, Fifth Columnist@w7voa ...he said while unplugging a server farm.
FreediverX
annie gray@w7voa
I doubt that there are many "normal users" on twitter anymore. Mostly predators and predatees.
I doubt that there are many "normal users" on twitter anymore. Mostly predators and predatees.
MufasaThe referenced tweet:
Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@ne1for23 doesn't load for me.
(Just kidding, I didn't try. Screw that guy. I tried on a different link, and it gave the attached message.)
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5
GenoForPrez@w7voa Interesting rhetorical maneuver calling access by internet users who don't have accounts "data pillaging'.
DenverComicGuy@genoforprez @w7voa yeah it sounds like he thinks non registered users are web scrapers or something
@genoforprez @w7voa i moderate several forums, and I’ve already blocked Twitter links as a result of this. People are free to share screenshots, but links to the website itself are useless at this point. He’s really doing his damn best to kill the website, but the users keep insisting on keeping it afloat. Really makes you wonder if it’s even possible to kill a social media site, or if network effects make then immortal.
@DenverComicGuy @w7voa Exactly. It seems to indicate (and it's not the first time) some kind of incredible naivete about how the internet works. It's fine if he wants to have a walled garden. Those are nothing new under the sun. But to sort of imply that any website that isn't a walled garden but is public facing is being pecked apart by vultures is absurd.
@DenverComicGuy @w7voa One just gets this image of him completely out of his element, like a drowning sorcerer's apprentice, and he's just yelling out "Everything's fine down here! There are just too many databytes requesting our html tables! Just gotta defragment the socket layer, that's all! I'm fine everything's fine down here!"
Atz@w7voa
Oh God let this remain so we can stop getting "articles" that are just 90% links to tweets about "what people are saying."
Oh God let this remain so we can stop getting "articles" that are just 90% links to tweets about "what people are saying."
Sean McCabe@w7voa $8 blue check buyers aren't normal people.
DJ"Twitter lose a lot of user, data are very bad -> try to increase user with a very stupid idea"
In 3 days, Blues user will moan because nobody reads them
Chloe Tse 
@w7voa
Sounds kinda like Twitter and Reddit are learning from each other
Sounds kinda like Twitter and Reddit are learning from each other
Imperator Nevadicus@w7voa He’s been degrading service since he bought it
Rob Landley@w7voa Fascism 101: declare a temporary state of emergency with no expiration date, ala the Reichstag Fire Decree or Patriot Act.
@w7voa
When you shut off servers, fire workers, lock off API, and then blame service degradation on non-zero people are still using it.
When you shut off servers, fire workers, lock off API, and then blame service degradation on non-zero people are still using it.
AI6YR Ben@w7voa Yep, I have been seeing this...
Kevin Leecaster
Shannon DeMaria
Wolleysegap@w7voa Gee, that's awful. Guess I will have to block them too. Oh wait, I don't use Twitter and never have. I'm sure it's a bummer for some, but I never saw the point.
@w7voa It is. Just noticed this morning. And for weeks before that, they were blocking unregistered users from using the search function or browsing by hashtags/trends.
ryanroat@w7voa peak enshittification: https://kottke.org/23/01/the-enshittification-lifecycle-of-online-platforms
@w7voa Obviously, I can't imagine this is going to help their struggles with advertisers. This move appears to be gambling big on subs, and I'm not sure they're coming.
Aedius Filmania ⚙️🎮🖊️@w7voa I got this this morning, that's great company will need to move to another service like ... An RSS Flux 😌
Steve Oh 🇺🇸💙✊🟰🗽🇺🇦@w7voa - stupider and stupider … 😫
Stephen Michael Kellat@w7voa I’m increasingly glad I left it behind. I didn’t burn any bridges. They did.
ML2@w7voa I should note that Nitter still seems to be working, though it took me a little bit to find an instance that isn't rate-limited (many of the ones that I normally use currently are).
aka Sethro@w7voa I ran into this today. I need my Baddcompani fix!
Xerø@w7voa And nothing of value was lost.
Fredi Garcia@w7voa love to see it
@w7voa
I hope it’s permanent, as that will only accelerate the bird site’s demise and persuade more people to stop hanging out at the Nazi bar.
I hope it’s permanent, as that will only accelerate the bird site’s demise and persuade more people to stop hanging out at the Nazi bar.
Pablo Martini@w7voa I blocked twitter! Don't use it! He will soon only use it for after sales on his cars!