This is invaluable whenever someone links to a Twitter thread here and I don't want to spend the effort dodging sign-up modals and piecing together 30 fragments of what would just be a normal paragraph on any other site.
If you have an Android device, Fritter is a pretty good Twitter client. You can read threads and follow accounts without having an account. It's a little buggy sometimes, but overall it's pretty good.
Your comment made me click the link, exactly what I’ve been looking for