BrikoXTwitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
CandelestineAnd the number of people surprised…?
Didn’t like not being on googles results page did ya Elmo?
They actually likely did this due to SEO. Google was allegedly in the process of removing tweets from the search index because they weren’t accessible. This happens automatically for most sites.
And if they didn’t fire everyone, someone with a spec of sense would have told them this
Same with popups that try to throw you to only a mobile app
What makes you think that even if someone told Musk that, he would have listened to them?
True. If it were a good idea he would have already thought of it, right?
Every single one of these “iNDePENdeNT/liBerTaRian” tech bros think they’re the smartest man in the room. Too high on their own farts.
He was firing people before who told him something wasn't going to work, so it wouldn't surprise me if everyone who knew this would fail stayed silent in fear for their jobs.
How does Pinterest get around this then? They pollute image searches like crazy, and require you to login to see anything. At least they did, I blocked them from searches so maybe it’s different now.
They must have changed their paywall behavior, I just went and was able to see every image I clicked on.
The login popup appears after a few pages but you can just exit out and keep viewing. Google should be able to index the pages without access issues
Maybe that previous aggressive login screen killed their SEO before, I see much less pinterest images than I used to years ago
Pikait 100% did, google removed over half the twitter links on its index due to dead links/login requirements, which if kept like that would basically kill all Twitter traffic since most traffic comes from search engines
Easy - detect if you’re getting accessed by a search crawler or a human. Serve a full page or just a login request.
So how can a user pretend to be a web crawler?
Ever heard of 12ft.io ?
It allows you to bypass alot of pay walls by basically pretending to be a search engine trying to index a website. For SEO reasons a lot of pay walled sites allow search engines to access the whole article to index.
12ft.io leverages this to show you whole articles behind paywalls.
This is something you could also achieve by spoofing the User-Agent.
It would probably work for things like Pinterest without an account as well, but that’s something I have never tried (since I have no interest in the cancer that is Pinterest).
Pinterest is cancer. They act like their content belongs to them when it’s all stolen images
ipodjockeyLol too little too late.
A lot of government agencies use Twitter for breaking news, notifications, and alerts that they’re trying to get out as quickly as possible to as many people as possible, such as tornado warnings, amber alerts, traffic conditions, etc. I can’t imagine they’d stick around a platform that requires logging in to view these messages.
I thought the exact same thing this morning when the NL alert had a Twitter reference in it
I can’t imagine they stick around on a platform that isn’t stable and in the last year has changed direction so many times that almost no one can keep up with it. It’s the instability and constant changing that makes people jump ship from a previously stable platform. It’s not like a Lemmy instance where it’s to be expected for a while.
I read that public service annoucement accounts were excempt from the change, but it’s just bad business either way.
Ideally governments should be pushing things like threat to life alerts out via a digital emergency alert system (e.g. Amber alerts) rather than hoping those potentially impacted are checking Twitter.
Which is funny because the UK decided to finally implement this recently and my god the Twitter Boomers were mad.
𝖕𝖘𝖊𝖚𝖉This morning storm Poly smashed the Netherlands, especially North Holland (Amsterdam region). Digital emergency alert system was used, three times, and directed people to Twitter.
Which was closed, of course. It’s a political shitshow right now. Amsterdam municipality already runs its own Mastodon, and this fuckup probably have consequences in moving official broadcast channels off Twitter.
Which was closed, of course. It’s a political shitshow right now. Amsterdam municipality already runs its own Mastodon, and this fuckup will probably have consequences in moving official broadcast channels off Twitter.
Germanys gov runs its own Mastodon instances as well - social.bund.de - where the cabinet, the ministries, state institutes etc have their official accounts.
Some non-political examples are: The German Weather Service, the German Aerospace Institute, and the Consumer Protection Agency.
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Better Late than never…
trambeDamn it’s like whoever is taking these decisions has no idea what he’s doing
Elon is speedrunning bankruptcy right now.
Twitter 2.0 is really just a startup company
AkasazhI read that as standup comedy, and I’ll stick with that
Pissy BadgerI still can’t see any tweets. Maybe it’s a Canada thing…
I still can’t see any tweets. Because I value my mental health and don’t go looking for the horrible things.
Granted. That’s why I got myself permanently banned from Twitter.
RaphaelIrrelevant. Nitter still not working.
GreenCrushThis is hilarious. You don’t change your mind about a new policy unless it was absolutely terrible and threatened your business. I can’t see twitter surviving much longer; how are they even going to make money?
I saw one reporter describe it as if Costco decided to make every checkout “10 items or less.”
What is a Costco?
𝐘Ⓞz҉These companies know that the power is with the people. We just need regulars who are not tech educated to get themselves educated and see how the power shifts from these companies to FOSS and decentralized platforms.
jecxjoYou’re talking about an issue humanity has had since forever, getting people to do what is best for their own interests. In business they actually needed to create the concept of a union just so that people would organize in a way to help all workers. Without that force driving them together what you get is the Reddit 48hr blackout. People can’t stop using the service long enough to invoke actual change because their addiction to Reddit was too high.
This rollback of login requirements was because Google stopped indexing them. The only power the people had in the Twitter situation was being the consumers of Google who were being directed away from Twitter.
It’s a problem of collective consciousness, the majority of humanity are about 30-100 years behind the bleeding edge of education and comprehension. It takes a long time to bring all those people up to speed. There’s a reason they say “Science advances one funeral at a time.” Because new lessons aren’t learned by old people, why would you relearn something you already know?
This younger generation is the first to really get it though. And yet personal wants still trump actual progress.