I'm trying to access a Twitter profile as a logged-out user.<p>Previously I would have been able to see tweets and other information. Now I'm being redirected to a login page.<p>For example, try this in incognito / private browsing mode:<p>https://twitter.com/nasaearth?lang=en
Twitter seems to have made an exception for archiving via the Internet Archive, so you can view tweets and profiles via <a href="https://web.archive.org/save" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://web.archive.org/save</a> if needed.<p>They've not done the same for other archive sites like <a href="https://archive.ph" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://archive.ph</a> and <a href="https://ghostarchive.org" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://ghostarchive.org</a> though. Perhaps because those sites don't make their archiving HTTP requests with any header that identifies them differently from a common browser. Whereas the Internet Archive adds<p><pre><code> Via: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot; Wayback Machine Live Record; http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot), Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; archive.org_bot; Wayback Machine Live Record; http://archive.org/details/archive.org_bot), 1.1 warcprox
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to each request, which allows for an easy detection server-side.
If it's verified that this is not a temporary issue nor anomaly, this is a big reason for me to use Mastodon regularly.<p>I run a business and post important updates to Twitter. My users should not have to have Twitter accounts to receive updates.
I'm seeing the same behavior, wasn't like this yesterday. Also, yesterday I noticed they removed the search feature in the top-right corner for logged-out users. Previously I could search for a specific person, click their profile, and view their feed. Instead of search, there were "New to Twitter?" prompts to sign up or sign in, no search was visible.<p>I've never had a Twitter account and I really don't want one. But I do check the NWS (National Weather Service) local accounts for updates on severe weather, and now those accounts are behind an auth wall and I can't see anything at all. I wish they'd make an exception for public service accounts (NWS, fire, police, government) and make them visible to everyone.
Daily reminder that Nitter (a Twitter frontend) exists for <i>precisely</i> this kind of issue:<p><a href="http://nitter.net/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://nitter.net/</a><p>Just replace twitter.com with nitter.net in links.<p>Its still working for me without a login.
Difficult to know, with the new Twitter, if this is intentional or they just screwed something up - although they've been driving their API to zero for ages, so probably intentional.
Yeah I noticed too. Let’s see how this works out for them.<p>Interesting move for an ad supported platform.<p>I’d be interested to see their traffic graph for the day. What do y’all think? 50% drop?
It's 302 redirecting to /home<p>This may be a bug.<p>Or it may not be a bug. Who knows at this point?<p>[EDIT:] The same thing is happening for links to individual tweets, not just profiles. I doubt that Twitter intends to block tweets, so this feels like a bug.
Most discussion about this now happens there: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957</a>
Does Twitter allow simultaneous logins? Maybe someone could set up a single account and post the credentials then everyone could just use that one account.