Twitter has removed the restriction that requires a login to view tweets from the browser. This obligation, which Elon Musk described as “temporary”, came on June 30.
Twitter, under the management of Elon Musk, has been on the agenda recently with restrictions that negatively affect users. At the beginning of the month, the platform had limited the tweets that users could view in one day. One day before that, users can access the platform. Viewing tweets from the browser without logging in was blocked.
There was a new development regarding this second restriction, which attracted a lot of attention. Twitter repeals login requirement days later He quietly decided to remove it.
No longer required to log into Twitter to view tweets
It is possible to view tweets again without logging in.
First, let’s unpack this restriction a bit. On June 30, Twitter blocked users from viewing tweets without logging into the platform. In other words, when wanting to view a tweet, the user was asked to log in. If if he didn’t have an account, he couldn’t view that tweet.
According to TechCrunch, this restriction was lifted today. In the information received, it was stated that the previews of the tweets from applications such as Slack and WhatsApp are again visible. In our experiments, we that we can access tweets without logging in We saw.
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Twitter did not make any statement about this change. Elon Musk, who turned the platform into a toy and could not understand what he wanted to do, stated in a tweet that this temporary decision was made against data scraping. In addition, the company announced that the tweet viewing limit, which is another frustrating decision, was introduced for these reasons.
Source :
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/twitter-silently-removes-login-requirement-for-viewing-tweets/