Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most countries

Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by Dunedan on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:27PM (#22999079)

For me, an occasional reader without a Twitter account, the experience became much worse in the past decade. That's because Twitter switched of RSS feeds and when opening links to individual tweets nowadays there is this ubiquitous "Something Went Wrong, Try Again" on first page load.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by pests on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:40PM (#22999189)

If I'm not mistaken that "Something Went Wrong" is their web API keys being throttled...

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by heleninboodler on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:51PM (#22999294)

If this happens to a client attempting to load a single page in isolation (which it does, a lot), you are a failed web site. They may be a very successful mobile app, but as a website, they've failed miserably.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by ikt on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:51PM (#23003168)

I get this a lot and just assumed it was because I'm using a VPN.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by inapis on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @05:56AM (#23005389)

I get this a lot if i’n using a VPN or an ad blocker like pi-hole.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by clarry on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:38AM (#23004515)

I get that every single time unless I'm in private browsing mode. Clearing cookies and local storage makes no difference..

sigh

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by dannyw on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:43PM (#23003120)

It's absolutely absurd that this happens for a site as big as Twitter.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by rakoo on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:51PM (#22999290)

I use nitter.net as an alternative frontend, it's better in every way

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by djsumdog on Monday April 27, 2020 @03:54PM (#22999313)

I love nitter and threadreaderapp. They make reading Tweets tolerable. The stock UI is just a confusing cluster fuck of Web 5.0 bloated webpacked Javascript bullshit.

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Re:Twitter kills off SMS notifications and posting in most c... by rakoo on Monday April 27, 2020 @04:46PM (#22999851)

There is absolutely nothing the original UI offers that I want, it's all bloated all I want is the content. Unfortunately when I'm looking at a tweet I want to see the whole conversation with replies and such, but nitter doesn't show it, only some of the threads that start at the given tweet, so if I want to read it all I have to click everywhere and open 10 tabs. I wish there was a frontend that loaded the whole conversation in one go, the way HN or old reddit do

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