So, I for years have READ only Twitter and shared and spread lots of tweets and tweet videos.

NOT SIGNED UP

read only.

Today

Twitter has made it so you cannot just read.

When I go to read the accounts I read daily, the site tells me to sign in or create an account.

This sucks and seems fishy due to election shit ramping up.

I read and if I find a tweet worth telling others to read, I spread it.

So do some of you.

It allows millions who do not do social media, like me, to be aware of news and topics not on cable news or legacy media.

Many may go to read more and sign up due to us readers only, grabbing the info and sharing to others in ways we communicate like blogs, emails, etc.

Now we cannot even see a thing.

I think it is odd this is starting now after years of being able to read, see ads, etc.

Just not signed in to TALK/Tweet.

Elon is allowing this.

Right as election shit heats up and Hunter /Biden CIA/FB stuff heats up.

Many who READ only may have signed up due to finding Twitter due to the RAED only spreaders, like me. If somoene see the tweet and wnats to say a response, they will create an account. Now, YOU MUST create an account just to read.

Elon is short sighted with this.

The timing is suspect.

Twitter taking away the ability to READ ONLY without signing up.

is like tearing down flyers on street posts

so no one can see the missing dog information

Twitter isn't letting users view the site without logging in

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/twitter-isn-t-letting-users-view-the-site-without-logging-in-1.6463380#:~:text=Twitter%20appears%20to%20be%20restricting,view%20public%20accounts%20and%20tweets.

>>19101300

>The timing is suspect.

>Twitter taking away the ability to READ ONLY without signing up.

>is like tearing down flyers on street posts

>so no one can see the missing dog information

>>19101307

>>19101300

Twitter isn't letting users view the site without logging in

NEW YORK - Twitter appears to be restricting access to its platform for anyone not logged into an account.

People without a Twitter account or who weren’t logged in used to be able to scroll the platform’s homepage and view public accounts and tweets. But as of this week, when such a user opens the platform they are met with a screen prompting them to sign up or sign in to Twitter.

Internet users began noticing the change late this week, and on Friday, multiple CNN reporters were unable to access Twitter without logging in.

It was not immediately clear whether the change was an intentional policy update or a glitch, both of which have been common at Twitter since Musk took over the platform. Twitter did not respond to a request for comment.

The change comes as billionaire owner Elon Musk attempts to revamp Twitter’s business following months of challenges since his takeover late last year — now with the help of new CEO Linda Yaccarino.

Twitter’s leadership is urging advertisers to return to the platform after many fled over concerns about increased hate speech, layoffs and general questions about the company’s direction. Musk has also sought to grow subscription revenue by offering a blue verification checkmark for users who sign up for its Twitter Blue service.

The restriction on public access to Twitter could be an effort to grow the platform’s user base, which has always been significantly smaller than social media rivals like Facebook and Instagram.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/twitter-isn-t-letting-users-view-the-site-without-logging-in-1.6463380#:~:text=Twitter%20appears%20to%20be%20restricting,view%20public%20accounts%20and%20tweets.

>>19101300

>>19101307

>>19101313

>>19101314 hmmmmmm

Tucker should be made aware ASAP

read twitter without signing up

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gHacks

How to bypass Twitter's login prompt and access content without account

Twitter is restricting access for anonymous users; find out how to bypass these restrictions and access content on the site.

.6 hours ago

https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/30/how-to-bypass-twitters-login-prompt-and-access-content-without-account/

The Verge

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users from viewing tweets

If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you'll be unable to see any of the content that was…

.2 mins ago

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

CNN

Twitter isn’t letting users view the site without logging in

Twitter appears to be restricting access to its platform for anyone not logged into an account. People without a Twitter account or who…

.3 hours ago

https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/30/tech/twitter-public-access-restricted/index.html

>>19101300

>>19101332

TWITTER/TECH/APPS

Twitter has started blocking unregistered users

/ If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you need to be signed in to a Twitter account

By Jess Weatherbed, a news writer focused on creative industries, computing, and internet culture. Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews.

Updated Jun 30, 2023, 2:36 PM MST|84 Comments / 84 New

If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user.

Twitter didn’t immediately make a public announcement, making it unclear if this was an intentional update or another technical mishap. Later on Friday, however, Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted, claiming in a reply that the change is a “Temporary emergency measure,” blaming “data pillaging” for degrading the service for all users.

In a reply to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney complaining about how pay and account walls break the internet, Musk claimed, “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience” without providing any more specifics.

We have seen some Twitter problems become more common recently, like broken previews in other apps like Discord, Slack, and iMessage, and Mashable recently reported that even people who pay the steep new rate for API access say they’ve seen unannounced changes, bugs, and no customer support. From the outside, we don’t know if that’s because of the scrapers Musk notes or his own attempts to cut costs that included layoffs within the teams that help keep Twitter’s servers running and reportedly leaving a Google Cloud bill unpaid for months before recently resuming payments, according to Bloomberg.

Prior to this change, Twitter allowed people limited access to the platform without an account — you could view public tweets and user profiles, for example, but couldn’t like or leave comments.

A window that prevented readers from viewing additional posts until they signed in also previously appeared after the viewer had scrolled past an undisclosed number of tweets, though that at least allowed some access to the platform.

In a reply to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney complaining about how pay and account walls break the internet, Musk claimed, “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience” without providing any more specifics.

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.

The move manages to both contradict and support other actions that owner Elon Musk has taken in the past year. In 2022, Musk hired noted iPhone hacker George Hotz to fix its search feature and get rid of the login prompt that prevents unregistered users from browsing the website. Hotz resigned less than halfway through his 12-week internship with the company, claiming he “didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there.” In April this year, Twitter then eliminated the platform’s search feature for unregistered users entirely.

Free Twitter account holders can still access publicly posted tweets and other information, though many of the features that enhance user experiences (such as editing tweets and user verification) are locked behind a Twitter Blue subscription, and more of the platform’s core features could soon follow. The company could probably use the cash injection from users paying for premium features — Twitter’s US advertising revenue between April and May this year plummeted by 59 percent compared to the previous year.

Update June 30th, 5:35PM ET: Added tweets from Elon Musk confirming the change is intentional.

84 comments

>>19101350

>>19101300

from comments

(Edited)

This broke all Twitter embeds too by the looks of it (e.g. in WhatsApp and Slack)

Well, that defeats the original purpose of Twitter.

Didn't Elon hire that guy from a tweet to do the direct opposite of this? What happened?

Elon starting charging $40,000 for API access so people started scraping the website instead and Elon threw a temper tantrum.

"Absolute free speech! If you have $8/mo! And a twitter account!!1!"

And also, don't mock Elon. Or criticize right wing douchebags.

Elmo: "The beatings will continue until morale improves!!1!"

You'd think it would be easier to just pay your hosting bills on time, Elon.

Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn have been doing this for years. Why is it only when Twitter does it that it becomes headline news?

Either way it's extremely obnoxious and I hope that this changes for all those platforms.

1) They have ALWAYS done that. Twitter has not.

2) They never claimed to be open, nor have they claimed to want to be the Town Square. Twitter has.

3) Their CEOs never claimed they were going to change it, so that everyone could see everything at all times. Twitter's has.

4) They have advertising capabilities across the internet, so that they can serve ads to anyone, even if not on their platform. It doesn't matter if you don't have a Meta account or ever go to a Meta property - you're seeing ads Meta is being paid for. However, Twitter (IIRC, if they had this functionality I didn't use it) only has ads on its owned property. So, if you're not going to Twitter, you're not seeing an ad Twitter is being paid for. Twitter was making money off of people without accounts. It now isn't.

Twitter is a public by default social network and always has been. IG lets you see some posts before prompting login, and Facebook is for sharing things with friends and family (mostly). It's just different.

Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn have been doing this for years. Why is it only when Twitter does it that it becomes headline news?

I can see posts and profiles that aren't set to private on Instagram without logging in. I can't see anything on twitter without logging in.

Surprised how this article didn't mention when Elon opened up the home page to unregistered users.

Taking away search from unregistered users was one thing but this is a total 180

And frankly, I don't really care enough to create a new account for the once in a blue moon moments I want so see what someone has been posting on Twitter

Glad they added the view counter a few months ago so the people who do have an account can watch the numbers go down

>>19101350

>>19101300

>>19101351

Lol the advertisers are really going to love this decision.

The real question is how will this affect embeds on other sites.

Seems to me this will just tank traffic to Twitter

since articles aren't going to embed tweets anymore.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets

>>19101300

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/

Social

Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

Amanda Silberling@asilbwrites / 10:35 AM MST•June 30, 2023

If you’re not logged into your Twitter account and try to view a tweet, you’ll be presented with a sign-in screen. And if you don’t want to have an account on the bird app, too bad!

Twitter hasn’t commented on this change, and given how sloppy the platform has been since Elon Musk’s takeover, it might just be a glitch. However, in a time when Twitter is struggling to grow its user base, it’s possible that this is a tactic to force silent lurkers into creating an account.

Like many of Twitter’s recent changes, this could easily backfire. If tweets aren’t publicly accessible, search engine algorithms could rank the site’s content lower, meaning that fewer people would be directed to the site from Google. Also, it’s just kind of annoying.

Musk — who is no longer CEO of Twitter, but still deeply involved in operations — may also be motivated by a desire to prevent AI tools from searching Twitter. Musk has previously admonished Microsoft, which dropped Twitter from its advertising platform, by saying: “They trained illegally using Twitter data. Lawsuit time.”

As new CEO Linda Yaccarino settles into her new role, Twitter has remained riddled with technical errors. Earlier this week, a disproportionate amount of users were notified that they had been suspended for three days due to spam. We’re still not sure what happened there (and Twitter won’t answer our emails), but with Musk in the C-suite, policies can change faster than you can say “$44 billion,” so anything’s possible.

>>19101300

>>19101416 <<< hmmmmm

>it’s possible that this is a tactic

to force

silent

lurkers

into creating an account.

>>19101514 THIS

and finding other gems and spreading the info

>>19101461

>>19101300

>>19101300

>>19101461

>>19101481

ARTICLE is dated July 1

https://sea.mashable.com/tech/24672/elon-musk-claims-twitter-login-requirement-just-temporary

Tech

Elon Musk claims Twitter login requirement just 'temporary'

Twitter is currently blocking visitors from viewing tweets and profiles unless they are logged in.

By Matt Binder July 1, 2023

It's just a "temporary emergency measure."

That's what Twitter owner Elon Musk said on Friday after the platform's users noticed that tweets and profiles were inaccessible via web browsers on both desktop and mobile devices unless they were logged in to an account. The change basically blocked all Twitter content from unregistered visitors and was not well-received by even its registered users.

"Temporary emergency measure," tweeted Musk in a reply to a user posting about the login requirement. "We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!"

It's unclear exactly what Musk is referring to, but he's likely talking about web scrapers that pull data from websites without requiring any official API to do so. (After all, Twitter's API is now severely limited and costs a minimum of $42,000 per month for most use cases.)

Aqueel Miqdad, a software engineer that works at Twitter, also added an update on the situation moments before Musk.

"This is a temporary restriction," tweeted Miqdad. "We will re-enable logged out twitter access in the near future."

As Mashable reported earlier today, many Twitter users noticed on Friday that the platform was blocking access to Twitter's content unless a user was logged in. As Zoe Schiffer of Platformer pointed out, the change from Twitter was unexpected.

"Musk's first project after taking over was redirecting the Twitter homepage to Explore rather than the sign up screen," Schiffer said, explaining how this move to lock content behind a login was counterproductive to Musk's previous decision to drive visitors to a page full of trending content.

At the time, it appeared to be a measure to block AI companies from scraping data in order to train its language models. It also seemed like a maneuver to push visitors into registering an account in order to grow Twitter's monthly active user base. As Mashable previously noted, in 2015, Twitter shared that "500 million people" visited the platform on a monthly basis without logging into an account.

Whether the decision to force visitors to login to a Twitter account is actually temporary remains to be seen. Neither Musk or Miqdad shared any timeline for once again enabling Twitter access for visitors without the login requirement.

TOPICS: Elon Musk, Social Media, Twitter, Tech

>>19101300

>>19101582

elon sez

>It's just a "temporary emergency measure."

alex looks like he has a small penis for his tongue

>>19101594

>>19101584 never forget

pain coming soon

>>19101584

>>19101626

>>19101618

https://qanon.pub/?q=hell

hell

↻ ↑ 32 posts

4211

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 319406 No.9129529 📁

May 11 2020 18:06:24 (EST)

Anonymous ID: b80dc5 No.9129511 📁

May 11 2020 18:05:22 (EST)

76B756AC_B65A_4828_B757_7209734C6EC6.jpeg⬇

>>9129285

Q Slow and Steady wins the race.

>>9129511

We are ready to unleash hell.

Memes ready?

Q

4544

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: cee948 No.9795415 📁

Jun 29 2020 23:09:31 (EST)

THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly rated. – Thomas Paine

Q

>>19101641

https://qanon.pub/?q=hell

>4544

>Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: cee948 No.9795415 📁

>Jun 29 2020 23:09:31 (EST)

>THESE are the times that try men's souls.

The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will,

in this crisis,

shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly:

it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;

and it would be strange indeed

if so celestial an article

as FREEDOM

should not be highly rated.

– Thomas Paine

>Q

>>19101650

misery loves company

ask Satan

>>19101660

there were

17

whirlpool boxes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PnQPsFf5Xg

>>19101603

>>19101660

>>19101697

https://qanon.pub/?q=laundry

laundry

↻ ↑ 1 post

4818

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 1808e1 No.10966994 📁

Oct 7 2020 14:07:51 (EST)

Threats, bribes & blackmail being deployed @ unseen levels?

Dirty laundry [blackmail] controls DC?

Why are they protected?

Threats, bribes & blackmail or sharing of 'like-beliefs'?

Dark Secrets.

"Let's see what happens."

Q

https://qanon.pub/?q=laundering

laundering

↻ ↑ 6 posts

soon

all will get the mccain treatment

Q !UW.yye1fxo No.85 📁

Feb 11 2018 18:42:20 (EST)

WDSHN_ISIS_TRAITOR_NN.jpg⬇

We don't say his name returning to prime time.

Wonder if his so-called illness/condition will flare up.

"He's not a war hero."

He's a mega millionaire.

M-Institute.

https://www.mccaininstitute.org/donors/📁

Rothschild/Clintons/SA/etc.

[Not complete].

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/04/08/john-mccains-claim-he-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-mccain-institute/?utm_term=.0e635aaf76b1📁

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-08/mccain-institutes-failure-use-donations-anti-trafficking-purposes-raises-questions📁

Define money laundering.

Define the word 'Traitor'.

A world w/o this man is a world better off.

Q

>>19101734

>soon

>all will get the mccain treatment

SEPTEMBER 16, 1975

William Colby Church Committee Hearing

CIA Director William Colby testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly known as the Church Committee. This hearing concerned unauthorized storage of toxic agents by the CIA that could have potentially been used to assassinate people without leaving a discernible trace of the poison. The committee released their final report on April 29, 1976. The program begins with a National Public Affairs Center for Television (NPACT) report on the hearing. This is a portion of the full hearing and begins with commentary from NPACT news anchor Paul Duke.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?409091-1/william-colby-church-committee-hearing

Church Committee Hearings CIA William Colby 1975

https://youtu.be/sYISgHPymEE

>>19101793

Reel America

Church Committee Hearings on FBI Intelligence Activities

Witnesses testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly known as the Church Committee, on FBI intelligence activities. From November 18, 1975, committee staffers Frederick Schwarz and Curtis Smothers detailed FBI abuses including spying, bugging, and attempted intimidation of Martin Luther King, Jr. From November 19, 1975, James Adams, deputy associate director of the FBI’s Intelligence Division, admitted to some excesses but defended a number of these FBI practices.

Context was provided by interviews with former committee staffers Frederick Schwarz and Elliot Maxwell, as well as an interview with Associate U.S.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?409117-1/church-committee-hearings-fbi-intelligence-activities

https://www.c-span.org/video/?409760-1/church-committee-hearing-fbi-intelligence-activities

Church Committee Hearing on FBI Intelligence Activities

Frederick Schwarz and Curtis Smothers testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly known as the Church Committee, on FBI intelligence activities. Committee staffers Frederick Schwarz and Curt Smothers detailed FBI abuses including spying, bugging, and attempted intimidation of Martin Luther King, Jr. This is a portion of the full hearing and includes commentary by NPACT news anchor Paul Duke.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?409602-1/church-committee-hearing-fbi-informants

Church Committee Hearing on FBI Informants

FBI informants Gary Thomas Rowe and Mary Jo Cook testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, commonly known as the Church Committee, on December 2, 1975, about their infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan and anti-Vietnam War groups. Mr. Rowe, wearing a hood to conceal his identity, described how he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan and with the knowledge of the FBI participated in violence against civil rights activists. Ms. Cook described how she informed against anti-Vietnam War activists. The informants were followed by Deputy Associate FBI Director James Adams who defended the practice. The hearing was preceded by interviews with former committee staffers Frederick Schwarz and Elliot Maxwell, and followed by an interview with Associate U.S. Senate Historian Katherine Scott. Video provided by NBC Universal Archives.

Church Committee Hearings Domestic FBI Informants 1975

https://youtu.be/bUXvnn8-Ayk

>>19101828

full video

of hearings

on cspan

Church Committee Hearing on FBI Informants

https://www.c-span.org/video/?409602-1/church-committee-hearing-fbi-informants

REAL AMERICA IS LOOKING TO GET TO THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CHURCH COMMITTEE, WHICH DID A BROAD EXAMINATION OF THE FBI, THE CIA, AND THE NSA. AS WE CONTINUE, WE WILL BE LOOKING AT THE TESTIMONIES OF TWO FBI INFORMANTS. FROM 1975, WE WILL SHOW YOU A CLIP OF A KU KLUX KLAN FBI INFORMANT BY THE NAME OF THOMAS WROTE. HE DESCRIBED HOW HE PARTICIPATED IN BEATINGS OF CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DURING THE FREEDOM WRITERS MOVEMENT. – FREEDOM RIDERS MOVEMENT.

>>19101793

>>19101828

>>19101837

many Church Committee vids

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=1975+church+committee

https://www.c-span.org/search/basic/?query=church+committee

https://youtu.be/j7JIoGDQTw8

>>19101793

>>19101854

https://youtu.be/VvKMpD2c9b0

>>19101867

Church Committee Hearings

Domestic Surveillance - 1975

>>19101793

agree

i never go there

boring

echo chamber

>>19101868

was thinking about this

>>19101756

>>19101645

tiffs

plaintiffs

Q !!Hs1Jq13jV6 ID: 0b2f6b No.9757400 📁

Jun 26 2020 15:02:11 (EST)

https://twitter.com/HouseGOP/status/1276589294010982401📁

Did order(s) violate government mandated policies?

Would a jury of peers agree their actions were reckless?

Would a jury of peers agree their actions were negligent?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-11/suits-against-state-officials📁

"The immunity of a state from suit has long been held not to extend to actions against state officials for damages arising out of willful and negligent disregard of state laws.165 The reach of the rule is evident in Scheuer v. Rhodes,166 in which the Court held that plaintiffs were not barred by the Eleventh Amendment or other immunity doctrines from suing the governor and other officials of a state alleging that they deprived plaintiffs of federal rights under color of state law and seeking damages, when it was clear that plaintiffs were seeking to impose individual and personal liability on the officials. There was no “executive immunity” from suit, the Court held; rather, the immunity of state officials is qualified and varies according to the scope of discretion and responsibilities of the particular office and the circumstances existing at the time the challenged action was taken."

Q

https://qanon.pub/?q=tiffs

tiffs

↻ ↑ 1 post

https://qanon.pub/?q=plaintiffs

plaintiffs

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>>19101889 helicopter?????

>>19101925 wut, where?