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> This killed nitter.

I suspect that was the intent.

Yeah. Honestly, at this point you have to think the ketamine isn’t being microdosed[0], or the whole Twitter escapade is an intentional op to burn down an account independent forum that has frequently been a source of pain for those in power.

I suspect the later. We’ve seen billionaires do it countless times.

[0] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...

Man, you don’t need the special K to see that Elon is not great at non-engineering things.

An admitted Aspie not getting SOCIAL media. Color my surprised.

Elon is not great at engineering things, either. The main thing that he’s great at is self promotion and convincing people that they should give him (even more) money.

Nah, how many people are using Twitter without being logged in compared to how many people legitimately change every link they receive to Nitter?

I used the 'redirect to nitter' Firefox extension and Android app but it got quite unreliable and nobody else that I know uses nitter at all. I think Nitter users would be a tiny, perhaps even immeasurable minority compared to casual readers that now are incentivized to either log in or fuck off (but... FOMO).

I didn't mean nitter _specifically_ but rather all forms of alternative/anonymous UIs for twitter (that strip all of the engagement/ad/tracking stuff from twitter.)

Of anything I suspect Elon saw what happened woth reddit and had a "wait, we should do that!" Moment.

Likely more of a bonus. I doubt anyone at Twitter factored nitter into any business decisions.

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