Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

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Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets
techcrunch.com

Days after requiring users to log in to view tweets on the web, Twitter has silently removed these restrictions.

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But they added something to block web scraping, since nitter is still broken.

I think they still blocking, perhaps by IP? I still see the login page.

Same here.

Aha - it's potentially a smart solution for them. Specific tweet links - the thing that they were losing the most traffic from, possibly - still work fine without login. You can't do just general browsing, though. This is what the article mentioned but weren't 100% clear about it.