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paxys

You can't view Tweets without being signed in.

API access is banned. Third party apps are banned.

A verification badge used to signal trustworthiness, now it can be bought.

All your posts are being used to train an AI model without the ability to opt out.

Every second Tweet is a crypto scam.

How exactly is the experience better than before?

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>A verification badge used to signal trustworthiness, now it can be bought.

They gave those out to Gawker bloggers. The only think the OG blue checkmark stood for was "someone who was friends with a Twitter insider".

Well to play devil's advocate the only things on that list that affect the logged in experience are the verification badges and the crypto scams. But I'm curious what the improvements are too since I haven't been on twitter in at least 2 years except for reading the occasional tweet that someone posts a link to somewhere

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