In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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    1 year ago

    saw this too! looks like it broke a ton of tweet embeds too… Muskrat says its to mitigate scrapers but–this feels heavy handed

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      1 year ago

      What damage do web scrapers actually cause Twitter? I don’t understand Elon’s logic in this move.

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        1 year ago

        Extra traffic that their infrastructure can’t handle since he fired all the people that knew how.

        Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.

        So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.

        What’s worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data

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        There’s no way they cause more damage than what they have done now. The vast majority of users (and eyes on ads, etc) are not going to have accounts. The majority of accounts that might pay money only do so because lots of people (who may not be logged in) see them.