Which sucks honestly. I don't have an account on Twitter and don't want to have one, but people ofter refer to Twitter threads, and it would be great to see them. Not to say about indexing
True, but Nitter is a bit hit and miss, and wasn't working for a while. No guarantee that it'll always remain available.
You can make alt accounts easily enough, there's no draconian "new internet" rules like forced SMS verification. I created a few for different reasons and haven't had trouble with them
If something remains possible but with a little friction, a lot (not all, but a lot) of it actually stops happening.
That was the case a few years ago, now there's an AI system that decides if you're allowed to view it or if you have to sign in.
"AI system"? I think it’s
if Referer != ''
"AI supported by expertly crafted heuristics for the edge cases" would be the slide title for the investor pitch deck about this if condition.
a large portion of twitter posts actually require a logged in account to view.