Twitter has started blocking unregistered users - June 30, 2023

[Mary Wilson]

Updated Jun 30, 2023, 9:36 PM UTC
By Jess Weatherbed​

Update July 1st, 2:42PM ET: Elon Musk has now limited Twitter access for everyone, requiring a verified account to read more than 600 posts per day. The original article continues below.​

If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the wider public. Instead, you’ll meet a Twitter window that asks you to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user. ...

Prior to this change, Twitter allowed people limited access to the platform without an account — you could view public tweets and user profiles, for example, but couldn’t like or leave comments. ...

Now, regardless of how you try to access the website — be that the homepage or a direct link to a tweet or profile — you’re immediately met with a sign-in prompt that completely obscures your view. It doesn’t even tease the content with a swift redirect. You simply can’t see anything. ...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/30/23779764/twitter-blocks-unregistered-users-account-tweets



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[sharon sanders]

I tried to read twitter without being logged onto our account and I get nothing. It appears twitter has gone to account holders only. This essentially cuts out 99.9% of the people who we want to reach.

As we currently have 7,281 users online right now - with only 8 tweets in the last 3 days - we apparently do not need twitter for exposure. As long as twitter was free and widely accessible to the world it made sense for us to post there. Now that no one can see it unless they have an account - what is the point?

We have always let search engines have access to our site despite some costly server charges in the early days. The entire point of posting on a 3rd party site was to expand access to our information. Even at facebook we had the settings marked so that people could see our content without having a facebook account (Maybe they changed that later? I don't know.).

It can take me hours a day to post our content and I scroll past 600 tweets, absolutely, in that process. I haven't tried to post there today so I don't know if I will be stopped midway. I have had some family commitments in the last couple of days and was going to catch up today and tomorrow - but now?

I am at a loss..........

 

[sharon sanders]

There are no new verified updates to the situation so I am just going to wait to see what happens. We have 3.500 online now, on a Sunday morning, and without promoting our content via twitter for 4 days. I am very satisfied with that result. We have our own site. We do not need any 3rd party.

We will remain open access without requiring registration and without any cost to view. This is a basic tenet that we have had since 2006 in order to reach vulnerable populations.

 

[Mary Wilson]

Threads: Thirty million join Meta's Twitter rival, Zuckerberg says

1 hour ago
By Chris Vallance & James Clayton
Technology reporters, BBC News​

Thirty million users have signed up for Meta's newly launched Threads app on its first day, the company's chief Mark Zuckerberg says.

He pitched the app as a "friendly" rival to Twitter, which was bought by Elon Musk in October.

Experts say Threads could attract Twitter users unhappy with recent changes to the platform. ...

Threads allows users to post up to 500 characters, and has many features similar to Twitter.

Earlier, Mr Zuckerberg said keeping the platform "friendly... will ultimately be the key to its success".
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66112648



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