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Hence why you need to sign in to access content from most feeds at least, so that you've agreed to the ToS.

Whenever I visit someone's Twitter profile without being logged in, I see an assortment of years old tweets and nothing current. Do other people experience this too? I assumed that I was being A/B tested with some limited view after the forced login modal stopped appearing.

> Whenever I visit someone's Twitter profile without being logged in, I see an assortment of years old tweets and nothing current. Do other people experience this too?

Yes. Views of logged-out profiles display statuses sorted by most to least likes, rather than chronologically. It's incredibly dumb, and makes many accounts (like government announcement accounts - @NWS et al) useless while logged out.

What a horrible decision. With this change I get the sense that the user has a dead account, or the page is broken. Definitely not some compelling "top hits" compilation that would make me want to sign up for 'X'.

What a disaster.

> What a disaster

Some people like(d) to compare Musk to Jobs; but when it comes to Product instincts - they couldn't be further apart. Musk is the anti-Steve-Jobs, his ability to make the worst product decisions is preternatural.

Does it happen on all profiles? Perhaps some of them are using features likes pins/highlights to show curated tweets?

Yes, it happens to all profiles I visit and I can rule out the pins/highlights feature. There's a weatherman in Texas who is a prolific tweeter and his page shows a random assortment of years old retweets (~2015), some tweets from last month, and no current weather forecasts. They don't change between page visits and none of them are in chronological order. What do you see when you visit https://twitter.com/wfaaweather ?

Yeah, it shows some recent tweets mixed with old ones (including 2015)...

I'm seeing it too, not pinned/highlighted and different when logged in.

They changed this a couple of months ago. Twitter is no longer chronological. On top of that Blue get promoted, having more reach.

I deleted my Twitter account before all that, all too often I cannot even see Twitter deeplinks anymore.

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