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That's a completely unrelated issue. Once someone sent you a link to a tweet, you could read it.

Is it unrelated? From the parent comment:

> Come on, pre-Elon you could click on a Twitter link and read the entire thread as well as the replies, now you just get a single tweet with no context above/below.

I don't want to nitpick stupid shit like this mate. But my point was to emphasise that Twitter had been going downhill before the takeover.

(And fact that it was always a toxic cesspool regardless of who owned it, but that's a different matter altogether)

Both are correct, at least according to my memory: you used to be able to read tweets without an account, but that stopped, and it stopped before Musk took over.

There were similar trends at other social media sites that happened around the same time.

Interesting; if you'd have asked me when Elon took over I'd have said something around 2020-2022. Probably why everyone assumes it's a result of him