I see the same screen: login or create an account. Oh, well.

Yesterday, a friend sent a link to a Twitter video and I viewed it just fine. Just now I tried the link again and, yup, all I get is a login screen. There are options for signing in with G### and Apple--both of which I do have--but nope, I don't think I'll do that, thanks all the same.

It seems twitter is being heavily scraped and Elon Musk says it's a temporary measure for now.

[twitter.com...]

Yep. a Twitter friend of mine sent me the info, just how much scraping could be going on?

Tell me no one around elon could explain how to slow down scrapers? I saw a WaPo article yesterday: [washingtonpost.com...] - where he says they'll be limiting the amount of reading non paying visitors can have.

Verified accounts will be limited to reading 10,000 posts per day while unverified accounts will have access to 1,000 per day, Musk tweeted. New unverified users who join the platform after Saturday’s announcement can access only 500 posts per day.

It would sound like a generous enough limit except that it still will require people to create an account and/or log in. That kind of limits its value to people who thought they might get emergency information via Twitter.

That means they will be discouraging sharing twitter links you know. Out of sight, out of mind.



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[edited by: not2easy at 12:31 pm (utc) on Jul 16, 2023]

We used Twitter until 2015/16 but stopped because it was simply becoming a "shouting match" and our customers simply stopped using it for business purposes. It now seems to have certain, varying specific types of audiences some of which can be very useful. Fortunately I have a very good friend who is a big Twitter fan / poster and 3-4 times a day would send me a link to stuff he knows I would be interested in.

As soon as he realised what had happened he began sending me Tik Tok links to the same post. I have absolutely no idea how many regular UK Twitter users there are, I suppose G/DDG may gave me the answer to that, however my impression is that it does not seem to have the "importance" that the USA gives it.

According to Statista, in 2022 Twitter in the UK has 18.4 million registered users, although, that's not necessarily active twitter users.
[statista.com...]

"People are saying"... that they forgot to change the server settings to handle the new login/account restrictions and the server went of on a self inflicted DDOS that had them offline for a time on Saturday. Power users of Tweetdeck found a temporary, limited workaround with a newer limited version.

Engadget [engadget.com] wrote about it:

For a lot of users (including Engadget), Tweetdeck effectively stopped functioning, just showing a spinning wheel above most columns. That may be because a bug in Twitter's web app is sending requests in an infinite loop, effectively creating a "self-DDOS"

Yep, I found that problem on tweetdeck, and just gave up with it.