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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by lucb1e on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:49PM (#36544915)
Nah, how many people are using Twitter without being logged in compared to how many people legitimately change every link they receive to Nitter?

I used the 'redirect to nitter' Firefox extension and Android app but it got quite unreliable and nobody else that I know uses nitter at all. I think Nitter users would be a tiny, perhaps even immeasurable minority compared to casual readers that now are incentivized to either log in or fuck off (but... FOMO).

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by Jenk on Saturday July 01, 2023 @12:05PM (#36551572)
I didn't mean nitter _specifically_ but rather all forms of alternative/anonymous UIs for twitter (that strip all of the engagement/ad/tracking stuff from twitter.)

Of anything I suspect Elon saw what happened woth reddit and had a "wait, we should do that!" Moment.

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