Omg, I went to twitter.com and it requires a login now. That's the end of that, I guess. Most people aren't going to sign up to see a random sentence written by some person that was linked to by some random website.

This is pretty terrible really. Governments, cities, states use twitter for alerts and news. Now I have to agree to be tracked and monetized to view information from my government. I think everyone needs to write to all your cities, states, schools, law enforcement etc and demand they stop using twitter for anything. Our taxes should not go to padding twitter's wallets.

Fuck Twitter. Garbage anyway.

Is the suggestion here that Twitter now requires a login to even view a tweet?

Maybe users will stop posting link to this site now that a lot of people can’t see it.

I see this as a plus.

So are all social media companies racing to the bottom?

What makes this worse is that using Twitter pretty much requires one to give them your phone number. Accounts without one will often or eventually get locked for "suspicious activity" and given option to unlock the account by providing phone number.

So anyone thinking about creating throwaway account to browse twitter, don't bother.

So this must be a regional thing since I can get around the login page using a VPN. My personal opinion on the matter is that I'm at least expecting backlash from governments since officials like using twitter for official announcements. I do not expect this playing well for twitter since they are holding a public forum hostage.

Thank god, I deleted my twitter account this week.

Why does the internet seem to just continue getting shittier

Wow, these companies are making it really easy for me to walk away. Thanks for the 15 years Twitter (I barely used you for the last 6 or so).

I'm in panic, here in Portugal now I can't read the President's and Prime Minister's tweets. I'm gonna kill myself! s/

[Edit:] Nitter instances aren't working, guess I'll have to delete my forgoten account in that shitty site.

Especially once you are mostly on alternative sites, privacy redirect is top tier.

Same here. I only browse, so I don't have an account and I don't plan on making one. This sucks.

The fediverse really needs to work on usability, but this is yet another example of why monolithic services can never be the long term solution.

Also nitter works no longer.

The enshittification continues. Cannot believe they are taking a page out of Pinterest, of all places.

time to delete my already dead accounts

...for a guy who doesn't like Facebook Elon sure likes to emulate it.

I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. It's readily apparent that Musk and Spez don't understand their product. Like, at all. Governments, politicians, NGOs, and businesses use Twitter because of the broad audience. It works as a platform for announcements because anyone can access it.

Locking it down to only Twitter users kills this. It isn't going to help ad revenue either to reduce the audience.

I saw some people say this was a tech issue and not a policy change, and that better be the case if Twitter wants to survive. They lose their last competitive advantage otherwise.