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Comment by ng12 | Hacker News Reader

Twitter has become so annoying. I can't even see what @ghost is without signing in.

Twitter's had a login wall for a few weeks now. The company is pretty user-hostile.

edit: There were some threads on this in the past that are worth checking out. Public service announcements like fire notifications are pushed out by public agencies through these services and they can't go to the intended audience when put behind the wall. Public sector really needs to be compelled to adopt interoperable and freely consumable protocols.

https://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+login+wall+site:news...

It can’t monetize as effectively without users logged in.

Instagram/facebook have locked up public intended content behind login as well.

Pinterest as well, for years.

Ironically I couldn’t see Amy’s tweet when signed in I had to sign out!

“ You’re unable to view this Tweet because this account owner limits who can view their Tweets. ”

Limited to friends and completely anonymous people I guess!

You must be blocked… either for a reason, or part of a block list or I blocked you accidentally when blocking ads which has happened a few times. What’s your username?

Ok thanks for the reply. I’ll send you a message some other way with the account.

You can email me at team@stackingthebricks.com

To anyone else reading: that’s a shared inbox, behave.

I respectfully asked a question about something she blogged about years ago and she blocked me. It was rather bizarre. Perhaps you met a similar fate at one time.

I understand why, but a lot of social media has gone this direction. It feels like a bit of a bait and switch over time.

The deal was we give them free content for eyeballs to serve ads and they give us a platform for exposure. Requiring login as well is a long trend I don’t like.

I use the Privacy Redirect [1] extension to redirect Twitter to nitter [2] which is a much better experience for someone without an account.

1 https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect 2 https://nitter.net/

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