Twitterwebviewer.com Service Discontinued

chii•about 1 hour 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•about 1 hour 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•7 minutes ago

Same with YouTube -> bittorrent, in my opinion

techteach00•33 minutes ago

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

georgemcbay•42 minutes 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•32 minutes 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•14 minutes 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.

rawling•about 1 hour ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49482422

techteach00•34 minutes 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•27 minutes 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•23 minutes 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.

Twitterwebviewer.com Service Discontinued

⚡ Community Insights

Discussion (11 Comments)Read Original on HackerNews