In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

  • djquadratic
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    212 years ago

    saw this too! looks like it broke a ton of tweet embeds too… Muskrat says its to mitigate scrapers but–this feels heavy handed

    • Chozo
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      122 years ago

      What damage do web scrapers actually cause Twitter? I don’t understand Elon’s logic in this move.

      • NotMyOldRedditName
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        2 years ago

        Extra traffic that their infrastructure can’t handle since he fired all the people that knew how.

        Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.

        So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.

        What’s worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data

      • trynn
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        152 years ago

        Your first mistake is assuming that Elon Musk uses any kind of logic.

      • eu8
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        132 years ago

        There’s no way they cause more damage than what they have done now. The vast majority of users (and eyes on ads, etc) are not going to have accounts. The majority of accounts that might pay money only do so because lots of people (who may not be logged in) see them.

      • Niello
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        112 years ago

        You have to assume flawed logic if you want to understand him.

      • orcrist
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        102 years ago

        Elon doesn’t understand how to use robots.txt.

        • Mateng
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          112 years ago

          To be fair, many bots don’t know how to use it either.