Twitter locked behind login page.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/513993

So today I clicked a twitter link because companies like to use it for official announcements, only to be greeted with a login page. Was annoyed then I remembered nitter exists. It just prompted me to install Privacy Redirect which I should have done ages ago.

Github: https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect

Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/...

Firefox Browser Add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/...

Looks like twitter waited for the reddit API changes to do push this change to try to do it under the radar.

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ThetaDev 31 points 3 years ago

Elon posted this on Twitter (quoted from an private blog since I currently have no way to access twitter):

Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users! Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

Lets hope that they lift this ban soon.

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Martineski 70 points 3 years ago

I hope for the opposite, this platform should die IMO

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ThetaDev 29 points 3 years ago

I'm definitely not using this platform anymore, but Twitter being private also locks away a lot of valuable content (including government announcements, as someone mentioned).

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Quacksalber 22 points 3 years ago

Reality: Musk has degraded Twitter's performance to the point they can't handle unauthorized access.

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grinde 9 points 3 years ago

It seems they're basically DDOSing themselves.

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onepinksheep 18 points 3 years ago

And that, Musky, is why sites generally provide an API and don't lock it behind prohibitive pricing. Because the alternative is to scrape your site, and that's more resource intensive for the site in question.

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lucidwielder 1 point 3 years ago

Obviously they don't mind imo because it also slows them down to some degree and since normal users and uses for it will go down I imagine things will either be wash or still be cheaper for them. Also Elon clearly has ambitions to best others in the AI game - it is just the experts in the field already parted ways w/ his arrogant self.

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ox0r 15 points 3 years ago

OT but it amazes me at what point musk sounds like trump when posting lol, he really just is technotrump

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gruvn 5 points 3 years ago

Please let #technotrump catch on.

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Nougat 12 points 3 years ago

... data pillaged ...

Meaning ... people were using your publicly available website?

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BossDj 8 points 3 years ago

HUNDREDS

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soundasleep 12 points 3 years ago

If only there was some sort of reasonably-priced computer-readable service or platform that organisations could use to collect data without degrading the service of users...

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lowdownfool 7 points 3 years ago

Exactly. API users migrated to using scrapers instead of paying what NuTwitter wants for shitty service. Who could have foreseen that?

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GhostOnTheHalfShell 9 points 3 years ago

Pillaged… in Musk speak means a normal day of traffic.

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MsPenguinette 4 points 3 years ago

I'd bet $20 that it was actually just their platform just struggling to do normal traffic and elon wants to make it some sort of rallying cry for his sicophants

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Haan 1 point 3 years ago

Both Reddit and Twitter making sure their data won't be used for training chat bots without a hefty price tag

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