Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without an account

Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by eCa on Friday January 28, 2022 @08:59AM (#30114635)

> If you’re trying to scroll deep into conversations or someone’s Tweets, it’s reasonable to expect that you’d need to become a user of the website.

This change happened during last summer. Funilly enough it was just ad I considered getting an account to share a bike trip live, but:

1. I didn’t want my new account to help their A/B-testing.

2. I didn’t want family and friends to have to sign up to follow my trip.

End result: No account, and I read twitter less since they don’t value my passive engagement.

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Re:Tell HN: Twitter is growing increasingly unusable without... by monkeybutton on Friday January 28, 2022 @09:27AM (#30114976)

>2. I didn’t want family and friends to have to sign up to follow my trip.

That's exactly what they want though. Their real user growth has slowed down and they're trying to juke the numbers by coercing the hold outs to sign up.

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