I would be interested to read these stories, but the twitter links only show a single tweet ending in the phrase "A thread." Perhaps this is a new feature of X whereby only logged-in users can see a tweet and its replies.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200118133242/https://twitter.c...
Also, a shorthand for "give me the oldest copy of something" is
You used to be able to read any public thread without logging in.
Then it became "only logged in users" to prevent scraping for AI training data (Apparently)
Now it's "you can see the linked tweet but not the rest of the thread unless you are logged in"