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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets (techcrunch.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 268 points 2 years ago (38 children)

They actually likely did this due to SEO. Google was allegedly in the process of removing tweets from the search index because they weren’t accessible. This happens automatically for most sites.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

https://www.rawstory.com/google-twitter/

Yeah they were already doing that, I imagine he took a look at how many inbound visits come from Google and quickly U-turned

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