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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by throw2022110401 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:08AM (#36547880)
That's Musk-speak. Translation: "we broke shit again and need to shed load to keep the site up."

I wish it would stays that way though so that I wouldn't land on the site by accident.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by choppaface on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:13AM (#36547923)
Less likely the reason is technical / cost of service (which is very cheap) and more likely he is trying to exercise leverage in pursuit of monetizing engagement (which had already happened [1] ). It’s not that he broke the website’s tech but rather he broke the website’s business.

[1] https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/twitter-pays-goog...

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