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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by input_sh on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @02:39AM (#45808394)
Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

And if you click on an account you just get top posts of all time instead of a chronological feed, so it's impossible to even find the context while being logged off.

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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by as1mov on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @09:56AM (#45811697)
Here's me complaining[1] about the login walls way back in 2021, this was before the Elon takeover.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28268365

Edit: Some more posts -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28281472

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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by the_mitsuhiko on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:31AM (#45812109)
That's a completely unrelated issue. Once someone sent you a link to a tweet, you could read it.
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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by as1mov on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:42AM (#45812232)
Is it unrelated? From the parent comment:

> Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

I don't want to nitpick stupid shit like this mate. But my point was to emphasise that Twitter had been going downhill before the takeover.

(And fact that it was always a toxic cesspool regardless of who owned it, but that's a different matter altogether)

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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by derbOac on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:53AM (#45812357)
Both are correct, at least according to my memory: you used to be able to read tweets without an account, but that stopped, and it stopped before Musk took over.

There were similar trends at other social media sites that happened around the same time.

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Re:Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether... by Carp on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @10:31AM (#45812110)
Interesting; if you'd have asked me when Elon took over I'd have said something around 2020-2022. Probably why everyone assumes it's a result of him
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