kemotep11 hours ago
I used Twitter for over 10 years without an account then suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted and no longer an option. Reddit is now this way too.
But I find it ridiculous that Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. get used by government agencies and local businesses to post announcements and these sites are increasingly if not completely unusable without being logged in (and in some cases requiring an app instead of the site). Even Bluesky has this problem!
Sometimes this information is really important! And I even if I did have an account I may not have access to log in on every device (or even want to).
It’s absurd that social media can become this like critical communications platform for severe weather alerts or business hours or anything but the sites hosting it are completely hostile to allowing you to see it.
Sites like this are a bandaid on a gangrenous foot. Thanks for allowing me to see links from twitter but it isn’t a sustainable solution clearly.
ghusto6 hours ago
Here in the Netherlands, WhatsApp has the defacto communication tool. Everyone is expected to have it installed, not just by friends but also municipals and companies. Same level as having an e-mail address.
It's a missed opportunity for the digital soverignty the EU says it so badly needs. The code for a government backed WhatsApp competitor is there, in multiple instances even. Launch a WhatsApp clone and put all governement communication through it so everyone has to have it installed, and you have an instant EU-wide userbase. From there, people will naturally start to use it between themselves.
veeti3 hours ago
Eurocrats could never in a million years make it happen. For starters, every country would insist on having its own ChatsApp, with roll out taking years. Then, to satisfy strict security and compliance regulations it would be restricted to devices passing Google & Apple hardware attestation checks. And once everyone is finally forced to be on board, any confidentiality guarantees can go out the window to catch pedos and terrorists.
It's for the best.
wldcordeiro6 hours ago
Reminds me of what Brasil did with Pix which of course the outside payment processors have been trying to undo.
baxtr5 hours ago
I think my main communication is probably the last tool that I want to be government backed tbh.
valleyer5 hours ago
Even if it's communication/announcements from the government?
I too am constantly frustrated that official communications from governments happen on Twitter or Facebook.
thevinter5 hours ago
Communications/announcements from the government can easily be posted on the government's website or, if really needed, sent as an SMS
iamnotherean hour ago
My local government still lets you sign up for email notifications about services and local alerts. It’s great!
r_lee4 hours ago
are those your "main communication" tools?
toomuchtodo5 hours ago
Do you think if government accounts were on Signal, people would install it?
a_imho11 hours ago
Increasingly access is hidden behind mobile apps too, which in turn requires succumbing to app stores and handing over the keys to 2 giant US companies. For slopware and social media, fine. Some would even argue it is a blessing in disguise. However on the government level it is totally unacceptable. E.g. why should anyone and especially non US citizens accept the Google/Apple TOS in order to file their taxes, access their health recds or schedule a gov appointment?
CTDOCodebases5 hours ago
It's all by design to. People call for social media regulation without realizing that it is by no coincidence these companies have been able to grow so large. The security state has been outsourced to private industry.
GPerson8 hours ago
My phone can’t even open most of the apps since it’s so old. Reddit does not load (this actually helped me a lot).
alyeska210 hours ago
Even worse, it's hard or impossible to even have an account with any shred of privacy.
I've tried to create pseudoanonymous accounts on both Bluesky and Twitter and then had them be instantly banned before I ever used them. Not even doing anything real privacy like TOR or a VPN, just trying to create an account without revealing my personal phone number.
Ironically, their attempts to crack down on bots means real people like me can't access the sites, while the scammers, propagandists and shills will put in the work to register accounts.
filoleg10 hours ago
Just to clarify, what do you mean by "without revealing my personal phone number"?
Did you use a voip number (e.g., Google Voice/Twilio/etc.) instead? Or somehow no number at all? Or a secondary (real) phone number, and Twitter somehow determined it wasn't your primary personal phone number?
Not pushing back against what you said, just trying to understand what factually happened.
omoikane8 hours ago
Bluesky didn't require phone numbers back when it was invite only, and then there was a period of time after they allowed everyone to create accounts where users need a phone number to verify. That requirement might have been replaced by a captcha according to:
https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/issues/2762
But I didn't try to create an account recently, maybe they went back to requiring phone numbers.
deltoidmaximus8 hours ago
Lots of services demand your phone number after the fact now, hoping to use the sunk cost fallacy to extort it out of you when you're in a hurry.
Walmart recently deleted my phone number from my account for vague reasons but most likely because another account had the same number. That other account is my wife and the number is our VoIP line. I have no desire to interact with walmart through my cell phone so I didn't give it to them. So I used a google voice number, which is not my number, to get back in. Then they just bought my actual cell number from my credit card company and autopopulated the field. Jokes on me!
aucisson_masque5 hours ago
> Then they just bought my actual cell number from my credit card company
Holy moly, don't you have any law at all to protect people's privacy ?
fcarraldo5 hours ago
in the US? no.
cassepipe7 hours ago
But I don't think that's the case for Bluesky
hparadiz3 hours ago
It's because of spam. You're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Ironically AI could fix this when trivial spam detection inference becomes cheap enough to throw away on every upload.
alyeska28 hours ago
It's been years since I tried making a Twitter account, I believe at the time it sometimes required a phone number to sign up but other times it was optional (some A/B test).
I think Bluesky didn't require a phone number to sign up, just an email. Maybe I'm misremembering though and it forced a phone number so I had to provide a fake one or a voip one.
deltoidmaximus8 hours ago
I wouldn't even care if they blocked my anonymous account from posting or really interacting besides reading things. But of course, preventing bot actions isn't actually why I need an account so they aren't going to let you do that.
cassepipe7 hours ago
I don't remember giving my phone to bluesky
giancarlostoro9 hours ago
> Reddit is now this way too.
Which is why OpenAI formed a partnership with reddit, in exchange for access to OpenAI's models, OpenAI gets access to reddit's data, and access to reddits live feed.
The reason X and Reddit started forcing accounts is to prevent or add barrier for web scraping, and forcing companies to pay for access to the data.
ModernMech9 hours ago
Notably this was called a “temporary emergency measure” by Elon Musk — yet another promise he couldn’t keep
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-now-needs-users-s...
sailfast9 hours ago
“Temporary emergency” should always be considered skeptically - especially when it comes to government. They almost always stay permanent.
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ibejoeb8 hours ago
I'm fine with the criticism, but what's the solution? And what makes this a uniquely Elon problem when the rest of the social media industry does the same? There was backlash when the models learned computer programming from open source repositories, so I wonder if the same applies to casual speech.
kelvinjps107 hours ago
Because it worked without an account before Elon came to Twitter and changed it?
Pedro_Ribeiro6 hours ago
Would've happened either way. Data is more valuable and also trivial to scrape now.
arjie11 hours ago
The governments go where the people are. If they post on their own sites it’s the equivalent of “on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard’”.
But government information should definitely be first source on their site with federation elsewhere.
phforms6 hours ago
Yeah, "first source" is the key here. The information should be available openly and independently of any 3rd-party platform.
In a broader sense, I believe that every person who publishes on the internet should have a standard way to keep their profile data (accounts, posts, etc.) in a secure, user-owned vault that is independent of any company or institution and platforms should have to pull data from that place (in a restricted, user-controlled way) instead of from their own servers. Platforms should be exchangeable, profiles should be entirely user-owned. But of course, this is just a dream and hard to realise technically and economically (incentive-wise) with our current systems. Decentralised protocols are a step in this direction, but unfortunately still too technical/complicated for most people to really "own" or host their data themselves.
arjie5 hours ago
ATProto attempted to do this with their PDS based structure but it isn’t fully decentralized yet. The vision is similar to what you describe though.
pfraze4 hours ago
Thats entirely how atproto works now!
andrepd9 hours ago
The problem is not governments or people posting there. The problem is platforms/utilities not being treated as such.
anotherpaul11 hours ago
totally agree, businesses that only have Facebook or Instagram are basically hidden from me. I can not see their opening hours, nor the menue, if it is a restaurant. I understand why the businesses use facebook, its easy, but its also a bit sad.
rplnt10 hours ago
Similarly, society decided at some point that linkedin, a completely private and constantly hacked social network, is a must-have when looking for work (not any work, but for a lot of jobs it applies). Just give them all your private data and we'll have a look.
y-c-o-m-b9 hours ago
Makes one miss the days when Craigslist or Monster (and its clones) were legitimately the best places to find employment.
I've always loathed LinkedIn due to their poor security and their data mining practices, starting from day 1. I haven't used LinkedIn in over 10 years and only used it briefly to connect with old colleagues. I never had a problem getting work without it. Due to AI, scammers, and infiltration by countries like North Korea, LinkedIn seems to be the only other source outside of "networking" to get hired these days though, unfortunately.
At this point nothing would make me happier than to see Meta, X, LinkedIn, and their friends collapse. They are a cancer and only amplify the enshittification of everything.
tuesdaynight10 hours ago
It's frustrating, but we need to accept that we are not the kind of user that these platforms want. I stopped using Reddit for the same reason, and I accepted that I'm not the best user for them. For my luck, Reddit is not used as the main communication channel for government agencies
Melatonic3 hours ago
That's why we really need some kind of non profit or maybe two "social media" sites made with the public good in mind. One could be officially government sanctioned and funded (sort of like Voice of America but internal to the US more so) and have a strict organisation verification policy for local police / government and other quasi public entities (say like transportation systems and energy companies - etc)
cassepipe7 hours ago
> Even Bluesky has this problem!
Bluesky is totally accessible for me without an account. What do you see ?
wackget3 hours ago
I wholeheartedly agree on every point. I've felt this way for years. It's scandalous.
Many companies also rely on socials as their only effective means of customer service. If you have a problem or want to provide feedback but you don't use social media then you are SOL.
Meneth6 hours ago
There is a browser addon https://github.com/tom-james-watson/old-reddit-redirect to view Old Reddit without an account.
tmp104232884429 hours ago
Should governments not have posted announcements in newspapers back when they were widely read, even though they require paying to read them?
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mxschll8 hours ago
In the EU, EU-Alert exists. They can push alarms to any phone with that system.
jasonfarnon3 hours ago
They have Amber Alert here and the other day I noticed it linked to twitter for more information...which I couldn't actually but for a split-second when a pop-up loaded. This is silly. Perhaps govt can reach more people by posting a message to twitter vs their website. But if you're sending a link out, there is no excuse not to link to your website or any number of other open, stable hosts.
jm48 hours ago
The Reddit thing is disappointing. I stopped being a user a long time ago, but their links often show up in search results. I started noticing I couldn't see the page without logging in. I ended up blocking Reddit in my search results. It's not worth it.
charcircuit4 hours ago
>are completely hostile to allowing you to see it.
You say like this like it doesn't literally take like 10 seconds to make an account to see it.
baggy_trough5 hours ago
Create an account then? Not sure why that's an issue.
Am4TIfIsER0ppos5 hours ago
You can't make new accounts on twitter. You can only use existing apple or google accounts.
baggy_trough4 hours ago
I think you can, if you install their app.
nomilk9 hours ago
From Musk in Dec 2022 (right after purchasing Twitter):
> we should not be prohibiting read-only scroll
Seems Musk agreed Twitter shouldn't require an account just to view the site. Wonder why the change of mind.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkNkSQ42jg4&t=50m47s
angoragoats9 hours ago
I learned from experience at least a decade ago that you should not take anything he says seriously or as an assertion of fact. Countless examples[0] prove that this is the case.
nomilk9 hours ago
Musk is aggressively optimistic on what can be achieved and by when, but rational on product decisions.
Musk stating that read-only scroll should be allowed seems very sensible (I think we all agree on that). But he (or someone he delegated to) clearly changed their mind. Intrigued to know why. Occam's razor would probably suggest that allowing scrapers to host twitter posts elsewhere costs them ad revenue, so they make it difficult.
assagr9 hours ago
He thinks Twitter data is valuable for AI training. He also blocks archive.org.
Grok 4.0, before it deteriorated, had a phase when it was good at writing tweets. The feature was used by Musk sycophants but it becomes boring soon.
Since Grok is closed now too and Cursor is pivoting to octocnt (GitHub clone), nobody knows where things are heading.
numpad04 hours ago
I think buying Twitter for data was a blunder big as expecting self driving to be solved by 2015 or whenever it originally was.
It is only clear with hindsight, but now everyone knows that tweets are literally detrimental for LLM style AI for whatever reason. Personally I think it's because tweets are responses without CoT or prompts, or could be also because all its meat is in the shape incompatible with en-US culture, even when it's in English, though all that matters is it's actively useless.
nomilk4 hours ago
Maybe for training, but how about look up? I often use claude voice and grok voice (both on iOS) and reasonably frequently claude simply cannot find any info about a breaking topic, whereas grok always can.
numpad03 hours ago
I wonder if "no one says no" culture is practically the same thing as instructing LLMs to always hallucinate.
You know, LLM hallucination is a phenomenon where the AI would generate syntactically bulletproof chunks of text that are not grounded in reality. Lots of efforts by frontier LLM labs had been made in past few years to solve this by enabling AIs to refute premises in the prompt.
Ordinary people still need to be instructed to google stuffs. They don't go to a niche de facto non-American social media to be disappointed by its notoriously bad search to then conclude its notoriously dumb AI can be abused as a makeshift search tool. People are simply unable.
Twitter has been doing so much things backwards lately. That's reminiscent of how hallucination hurts whatever you do with AIs.
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angoragoats8 hours ago
> Musk is aggressively optimistic on what can be achieved and by when
That’s putting it quite charitably, IMO.
> but rational on product decisions
Hard disagree. You only need to look to his entire tenure at DOGE for literally hundreds (thousands?) of counterexamples.
Or, if you don’t count that work as “product decisions,” there are other highly questionable product decisions that he is responsible for: the rear doors on the Model X; the lack of instruments/gauges of any kind in front of the driver on the Model 3 and Y; the lack of proper safety sensors/protection for the hood of the Cybertruck, leading to mangled fingers; that stupid yoke steering wheel; and the entirety of Neuralink (just to name a handful).
100percentjake8 hours ago
I am certifiably not a fan of Musk but the yoke in the cybertruck when combined with the drive by wire steering is an absolute engineering masterpiece and a masterclass in systems calibration. The yoke itself has a relatively narrow range of motion of .94 turns lock-to-lock and at slow parking lot speeds that means you can do a 3 point turn, park, parallel park, navigate around, without making large movements of the steering input and you never have to (because you physically cannot) go hand-over-hand. Then at highway speeds the steering ratio is vastly different and the vehicle feels solid as a rock. It's absolutely effortless.
Now, on the flipside, the yoke also exists in the Tesla Model S Plaid, which has a traditional manual rack. In here it is the worst god-damned thing to ever curse a vehicle. The width is roughly the diameter of a school bus steering wheel and going hand over hand with it is annoying at best and the whole experience feels like utter garbage.
angoragoats8 hours ago
> Now, on the flipside, the yoke also exists in the Tesla Model S Plaid, which has a traditional manual rack. In here it is the worst god-damned thing to ever curse a vehicle.
Yes, as I said, bad product decisions.
maxlin6 hours ago
Blame boundless AI scraping. X would like very much to be more open.
tharmas10 hours ago
And you have to have a phone number to login to these sites (Authenticate). Even On-line Banking, you need a phone number to log in. And in my country Mobile contracts are hideously expensive.
Its all part of the plan: the Digital Control Grid.
Just wait till the Genius Act kicks in with Stable Coins. Programmable money is coming.
fuzzfactor11 hours ago
>suddenly in 2022 that was completely disrupted
To some decision-makers their idea of "disruption" is limited to enshittification more than anything else.
Exoristos8 hours ago
Disruption was never an unblemished positive for society.
uygiugiu5 hours ago
Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a net win for free speech
celsoazevedo10 hours ago
Politics aside, Twitter/X has become a bad place to share information on and to link to. It's a bad option from a technical point of view.
We can't read a multi-part tweet (or follow-ups from the author) or check the latest updates from an official account without an account, which requires a mobile phone number and sometimes extra verifications. A digital "town square" can't require an account and a phone number to read what's said there.
Same with Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Linkdin, etc.
seahorseemoji8 hours ago
I wish I understood why the majority of the AI discussions happen on Twitter/X.
itomatoan hour ago
Tells me how valuable they actually are.
nlitened7 hours ago
Network effect. Most people worth discussing with are already there, so more people join the discussion there, and so on.
redox995 hours ago
Because obviously everyone who participates in a discussion has an account, so they don't feel this annoyance other than maybe when sharing a link to someone else.
anigbrowl4 hours ago
Read Social and Economic Networks by Michael O Jackson.
jesse_dot_id7 hours ago
A lot of crypto bro grifter crossover in AI.
moomoo116 hours ago
why not?
anigbrowl4 hours ago
Don't be obtuse. the reasons why not were spelled out in the GP.
moomoo114 hours ago
vague and useless reply
why are AI researchers and everyone else on X
preg_match16 minutes ago
Inertia. Twitter has basically no value, it's just a bad app and bad website. It was never actually "good" for information communication, but it was tolerable.
When it comes down to 99% of these "why are people using sucky thing?" questions, the answer is inertia. Never confuse popularity for quality, they're completely orthogonal.
andrewmutz10 hours ago
Anyone know the specifics of how this works under the hood? I assumed the people over at Twitter/X would aggressively block systems like this from working. Are they doing something creative to get around that?
swyxan hour ago
sad that i come here for technical information and yours is the first lonely comment asking about how this works
1vuio0pswjnm711 hours ago
API works great, for now
https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]
https://api.twitterwebviewer.com/api/user/[username]&uid=[id...
Beware the website is jam-packed with ads and tracking
1vuio0pswjnm78 hours ago
jwilk6 hours ago
What is the uid parameter for? It looks to me it's ignored.
f0e4c2f74 hours ago
Having the same issue. I think they might have turned it off. Was looking forward to using this.
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1vuio0pswjnm75 hours ago
uid optional
jwilk8 hours ago
The latter URL looks wrong.
SoKamil12 hours ago
It would be nice if URL schema was compatibile with X. In case of Nitter, I could’ve just replaced x.com with xcancel.com with a web extension and URL still works.
john_strinlai12 hours ago
it's brave to look at other companies receiving cease and desist notices and treat it as a market opening
thehamkercat12 hours ago
twitterwebviewer.com was registered in Hong Kong
according to https://www.whois.com/whois/twitterwebviewer.com
Looks fine, they don't care about the notices i guess
SXX12 hours ago
.com domain zone is managed by Verysign US company. They will just C&D them.
pibaker6 hours ago
"Check our Wikipedia page for our latest domain. Next stop the Central African Republic!"
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zerop9 hours ago
the maker - https://peterslab.co/products/twitter-web-viewer
doublepg2311 hours ago
I guess my brain has been cooked by internet libertarianism but what's the basis of a C&D for proxying a website?
Is the legal basis just copyright of the contents?
xmprt11 hours ago
Bigger "guns" diplomacy. They don't need any legal basis for a C&D. Just depends on whether you have enough money to fight it in court.
john_strinlai11 hours ago
i dont know the legal basis used, or the validity. i just know that i wouldnt want to have to spend the time or money fighting twitter over it
paxys10 hours ago
Well yeah the copyright violation is pretty clear cut here.
itintheory9 hours ago
My understanding is that copyright of what's posted is retained by the poster. The Nitter C&D was around a ToS violation for scraping.
HelloUsername12 hours ago
Show HN some months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46513823
chr15m3 hours ago
The general rule: any social media owned by a corporation will eventually lock posts behind a login.
itomatoan hour ago
Any social media product will be acquired and co-opted.
grishkaan hour ago
And stuff their UX full of dark patterns, and get very angry whenever someone tries building a third-party client without the bullshit.
oriettaxx8 hours ago
https://www.autistici.org offer great services with very strong effort to protect privacy, for more then 20 years, now... and all is done by volunteers.
Very proud of their work, and kudos for affecting how the world is handling information and their will to do good
unethical_ban6 hours ago
Now designated a terror organization by the current US administration.
oriettaxx5 hours ago
yes, I've answered in the wrong post, sorry
randyrand6 hours ago
Is this referring to the new Twitter company that recently launched (https://twitter.now)?
If not, then this is just going to lead to confusion.
urbandw311er5 hours ago
I don’t think there will be any confusion. Clearly this is not referring to this random new Twitter thing you’ve linked to that most people have never heard of, it is referring to Twitter the previously global piece of software with hundreds of millions of former users.
randyrand3 hours ago
Well, I was confused. New Twitter got big coverage today [1] and then more Twitter related news on HN today too.
[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/new-twitter-laun...
tyre5 hours ago
there is no chance that people would assume this is about a startup that's about to get nuked by copyright cease and desists
orsorna5 hours ago
Who in their right mind would take that site seriously?
jacobgorm4 hours ago
I've been on Mastodon for a few years, and though it has less drama than Twitter/X, it does seem to have reached critical mass of users and does cover most of my needs for random gossip. I am surprised that that nobody has mentioned it here.
skeledrew12 hours ago
Prepping for another C&D I see. The only way something like this can survive is through Tor or similar, fully anonymous and decentralized.
jjordan12 hours ago
What ever happened to IPFS? Wasn't it built for just this kind of thing? I remember trying it years ago and it was absolutely unusable, but was kinda hoping it had made a turnaround by now.
skeledrew11 hours ago
IPFS might be in trouble. Haven't really followed the tech so I have no idea how much of an effect there will be with Shipyard dropping it, but from the number of things I see named in their exit post I'd guess the blast radius is sizable.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421489
- https://ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-the-end-of-ipfs-at-shipyard...
pfraze4 hours ago
That dev community continued into iroh and atproto. We built atproto with whyrusleeping as a very active consultant
physicalecon11 hours ago
Dead, approximately. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49421489
HDBaseT2 hours ago
I2P Nitter instances exist: va7j3ssqh7e26twc2sflrwjrn7uxryuenatcmfp7njnr5hmvtuiq.b32.i2p
daedrdev11 hours ago
Listen I know this comment is off topic, flag this if you want but I think it’s an important discussion
Speaking of twitter, are there any posts here about the ycombinator discourse?
Given a high level member of ycombinator blocked the chairman of the FTC after an argument over immigration, I foresee issues in the future.
MiscCompFacts10 hours ago
Is there a link to this argument?
iAMkenough10 hours ago
I don’t think it’s an issue. Their site, their rules.
johannes123432110 hours ago
And compared to Twitter or others discussed here no government agency or similar uses Hacker News as their primary channel for news updates. However Twitter, Instagram and auch are used for such official purpose from different agencies worldwide. Thus access for the respective citizens is relevant.
alexthedigger10 hours ago
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bsimpson7 hours ago
Are there any Instagram equivalents that don't suck?
People love to virtue signal by linking to Twitter proxies, but Instagram is still a walled garden that all sorts of useful information (event details, restaurant menus, etc.) is locked inside. I occasionally have luck with whatever the top Google results are, but they're all encrusted with dodgy ads.
grishkaan hour ago
I've had people send me reels as links to ddinstagram.com and kkinstagram.com, which at least in Telegram, get transformed into a video that can be played inline from the link preview and downloaded.
Marsymars6 hours ago
Depends if you want an alternate front-end and you can self-host, or you're looking for a third party.
For the former, I generally look at what LibRedirect has as options: https://libredirect.manerakai.com/
Proxigram seems unmaintained, but kittygram seems to be actively developed: https://codeberg.org/irelephant/kittygram
bsimpson5 hours ago
I've never had an Instagram account, and I'm trying to keep it that way.
tlvbaf11 hours ago
Hmm, on the one hand Elon begs for new users with animated ads on the x.com front page, on the other hand one of his (likely) alt accounts claims that "Every $1 [of advertising on X] spent delivered an average return of $5.42":
https://twitterwebviewer.com/?tweet=2092490213121761787
I am kind of addicted to studying propaganda and reading about baseball stadiums on the moon to drive up the SpaceX stock price. For this I need the Twitter gateways.
Jtarii12 hours ago
The search is somehow faster than twitter's own search.
121kahG12 hours ago
The site is very fast even though it should be overloaded now. Registered in Hong Kong (good), handled by Cloudflare and claims to be in California:
https://github.com/peters-lab/twitter-viewer
Repo is fake, only a README and a LICENSE. I guess we'll take what we can get now.
gruez4 hours ago
>handled by Cloudflare and claims to be in California
Where? are you just pulling cloudflare's ip info?
seebeegeebee12 hours ago
We need this for Linkdin too!
add-sub-mul-div12 hours ago
Sometimes a walled garden can be a good thing, if it functions as a quarantine.
tantalor11 hours ago
More like a tall fence around a superfund site.
uygiugiu5 hours ago
indeed, bluesky is a great example of self-quarantine
pfraze4 hours ago
New account, 4 comments, one includes “Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a net win for free speech”
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fuzzfactor2 hours ago
Bless his heart, babies don't know any better.
newsomix9xl12 hours ago
I ignored Twitter before Musk bought it and oddly I still have no problem ignoring it.
It doesn't even have good cat pictures.
baggachipz11 hours ago
I built dailycat.app and it has good cat pictures!
abraham10 hours ago
Yay for daily cat apps! I run daily.cat
drop_star8 hours ago
you guys are doing the important work. Keep it up!
RIMR11 hours ago
Literally every time I decide to stop ignoring X, I log in and am greeted with overt racism and religious hatred. Always a good reminder to just ignore that cesspit.
I guess other people have more tolerance than I do for the constant stream of hatred that floats to the top of the algorithm like scum over there.
newsomix9xl8 hours ago
Totes. I searched for cat pics and within a few results I was being given racially charged fights.
vlod8 hours ago
How does this work, does it use the twitter api?
xg156 hours ago
Cease and desist in 3... 2... 1...
jp_sc9 hours ago
I don't think the worldwide trendings are right. The ones I see (with personalization disabled) are not all in arabic (?)
charles_f12 hours ago
To this day I am still calling the website Twitter and access it every single time typing twitter.com. That rename was so dumb. So, I really love the name
ThouYS9 hours ago
Thanks Peter! Now do the same for the 'gram!
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ChrisArchitect12 hours ago
Related:
Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
DivingForGold11 hours ago
It does not work for me like xcancel did
thallavajhula4 hours ago
not going to be long before they cut access to this app.
dhiraj1138 hours ago
Nice, how do you make this freely available?
xacky10 hours ago
You've been told for years not to use X, (twitter is now clearly the pre Musk era), but Elon knows you crave his dopamine so he can keep imposing harsher conditions.
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twilo8 hours ago
What is Twitter?
nancyminusone8 hours ago
the enduring result of the stupidest brand name change ever
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bigbadfeline11 hours ago
whackamole is the only way for now, unfortunately.
amazingamazing3 hours ago
Why are people so obsessed about twitter
benjaminclauss12 hours ago
It's disappointing that this is even necessary given earlier promises of opening up the Twitter algorithm.
aeyes12 hours ago
warkdarrior6 hours ago
The algorithm is free, it's the data that matters.
LightBug110 hours ago
How about ... fuck shitter ... I don't even want to view via proxy anymore.
PSA: I'm not interested in your shitter-specific content. Hit me up elsewhere. Thanks
ck211 hours ago
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kijashdkujdfhas10 hours ago
Based on the downvotes, there's a lot of folks who just can't stand to be reminded who and what they're associating with by continuing to use Twitter.
Folks, you don't have to give the nazi bar your business. You will live without Twitter.
uygiugiu5 hours ago
'everyone who disagrees with me is a nazi'
iAMkenough10 hours ago
I think you’re talking to bots. Anything that doesn’t align with Trump/Elon’s perceived worldview gets downvoted here.
kijashdkujdfhas10 hours ago
Don't care. The occasional human who might see the comment still makes it worth it. Even if they don't change their behavior, they've been reminded that they are hanging out at the nazi bar.
It's important to remind people of what they're doing, when they're doing something like that.
bigstrat20033 hours ago
No, he's downvoted because he's saying objectively false things like "Musk is a mass murderer", and subjective but unproductive things like "he's a Nazi". You can dislike Elon Musk and make that point in a mature way that actually leads to a good discussion. People do that all the time and don't get flak for it. This poster has chosen to be incendiary, and people dislike flamebait so it got downvoted.
kijashdkujdfhas2 hours ago
Yeah we get it, you like to hang out at the nazi bar.