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

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[–] eu8@kbin.social 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Musk claimed that it's temporary. Either way this is an absolute disaster. This must be costing them insane amounts of money.

[–] Jarmer@kbin.social 41 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"we were getting data pillaged" ... LOL I wonder what on earth that means in his feeble mind.

[–] eliz@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Just some deranged rich snob who thinks UGC is .. his? Kinda sad if you think about it. People posted on Twitter with the expectation of it being public, not some man's sandbox.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

That whole tweet reads like a screenwriter shit it out to fill some tech mumbojumbo plot point for a police procedural.

[–] nameless_prole@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

He only cares because it's not him that's doing the pillaging.

[–] lozunn@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"Temporary" in corpo-speak means permanent if it generates profit and there-were-some-technical-issues if it doesn't, so this is just Felon Muskrat testing the waters.

[–] nameless_prole@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Right, they will do a cost/benefit analysis to see if the amount of traffic and engagement that they lost cost more or less than what they made or saved by forcing log in.