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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] 17 points 2 years ago

Probably also advertisement revenue. Why would people go on twitter if they can't see anything? Why would advertisers pay money to show ads to no-one?

I think Elon got quite a talking to.

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