Twitter is obstructing individuals from viewing tweets and profiles on its web site until they’re signed in to the social media website — a transfer that proprietor Elon Musk stated is “short-term.”
When an unregistered consumer tries to view a tweet, the positioning prompts them to log in or join a Twitter account. As of Friday, customers might nonetheless see tweets that appeared in Google searches or have been embedded in different websites.
Musk tweeted that it’s a “short-term emergency measure,” to chase away individuals scraping the positioning for tweet information. “We have been getting information pillaged a lot that it was degrading service for regular customers!”
Twitter has lengthy relied on the accessibility of its tweets across the internet to drive curiosity within the website — as an illustration, by way of customers sending tweets to associates or contacts who haven’t got accounts.
Musk has made a string of product modifications since he took over the San Francisco-based firm final yr. In March, Twitter started charging for entry to its software programming interface, or API. Twitter’s API was utilized by fashionable third-party apps just like the now-defunct Tweetbot and Twitterific, along with tutorial researchers. Now Twitter is charging prospects $42,000 per 30 days to entry simply 1% of tweets.
In April, Musk quickly disabled likes, replies and retweets if a tweet had a hyperlink to Substack, the e-newsletter platform. After complaints, Musk then reversed that change.
