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Technically you can read any X posts with a free account, so it's an individual choice that shouldn't be assumed to hold across the HN readership.

Obviously where non-sign-in/paywall alternatives to any submitted post are available that would be a better link. That's not the case here.

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I read the linked page without an account.

Me too, but without the followup “To clarify” self-reply (which Twitter does not show to unlogged users), one loses some context. Thankfully xcancel.com still works, but for how long?

Here the full followup:

> To clarify, I called Airbnb to request help with rebooking accommodations farther from the danger zone. As always, their policies failed to account for context. The fires keep getting worse, and unfortunately, many others are probably stuck explaining bushfires to someone in another country right about now.

Current behaviour seems to be a bit random; sometime it will show the tweet (though without replies). sometimes it will redirect to the user's profile (which generally shows a random selection of tweets, _not_ the most recent ones, sometimes it will simply error. Thoroughly broken website.

They want my phone number, I'm not giving it to them

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