Twitterwebviewer.com Service Discontinued

29 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by nothrowaways
(twitterwebviewer.com)

15 Comments

chii

5 hours ago

completely expected, but still quite sad.

But like hydra, cut off one head, and two shall spawn. It should never be illegal to proxy another site, if the information content from that site was originally user generated. Using copyright as a shield is just a legal mechanism, and i don't believe it is just.

Therefore, it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.

nielsbot

5 hours ago

It would be nice if every logged in twitter user's viewed tweets were transmitted to a decentralized aggregation service for all to view freely.

WithinReason

4 hours ago

Same with YouTube -> bittorrent, in my opinion

techteach00

4 hours ago

Why? Let the world yell into the void. Nobody is listening anymore.

georgemcbay

5 hours ago

> it is civic duty for all to commit civil disobedience on this.

While I support civil disobedience, it would be more impactful if people just stopped using twitter.

I suspect this may be an unpopular take, but this late in the game I simply think less of people who continue to use twitter while complaining about how bad it has gotten.

Of course it got bad. And it is continually going to get worse. It is never again going to be that place that only lives on in people's rose-colored nostalgia.

But... they can leave it. The world will keep turning, and in fact will improve.

ButlerianJihad

4 hours ago

> if people just stopped using [X]

That’s not how it works, and you don’t understand the Network Effects at work here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49450055

georgemcbay

4 hours ago

My point is that people can choose not to use twitter despite the network effects.

I don't not use twitter because I think it hurts twitter. I don't use twitter because I know using it will hurt me.

Any politician/business/service/whatever that only makes announcements exclusively on twitter simply won't reach me, and I'm fine with that. I can't think of a single instance where missing such an announcement directly on the twitter timeline would have changed my life in a significant way.

user

5 hours ago

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techteach00

4 hours ago

it's funny. Twitter lost so much of it's power and reach when it went behind a login type paywall. if people can't see what's posted, why post it lol? The super majority of people see tweets logged out. Dead platform.

rf15

4 hours ago

Won't this lead to even less people looking at the platform? Are they trying to cut off the cultists inside from any outside observability? Doesn't that directly result in less power/influence for Musk?

conartist6

4 hours ago

Yes. Since they've made clear that I'm unwelcome, I'll also simply skip over reading their content wherever it is embedded on the internet now.

Markoff

4 hours ago

well, since Nitter stopped working I've stopped reading Twitter posts, it doesn't seem like much information value for me was lost, though especially now during Nepal floods it would be probably good source of videos, more difficult to skim through them on Reddit/4chan, if one is interested in videos of disasters

Leonard_of_Q

2 hours ago

Self-hosted Nitter still works for now, it is what I use to read X posts. You do need an (or, better still, some) account(s) but those are easy to create for now. The account(s) don't need any history, freshly-minted free accounts do just fine.