Just recently, Elon Musk made a change to Twitter that led to yet another backlash. The company made it so that people needed to be logged in to see tweets. However, that may no longer be the case, as it seems that Twitter has backtracked.
To catch you up, Twitter has been facing another whirlwind of criticism because of several changes that came about. The rate limit puts a limit on how many tweets users can view daily. Also, the company made it so that you could only see tweets if you’re logged in. These changes were widely dragged.
You might not have to be logged in to view tweets
So far, it doesn’t seem that Elon has announced that this change was going away. Instead, people are finding that they’re able to see tweets when logged out. Several folks at Engadget are able to see individual tweets when logged out. There are also some people who can see tweet previews in iMessage.
This might not have been completely reversed, however. While people are still able to see individual tweets, profiles aren’t loading in properly. While the profile will come up, their feed of tweets isn’t loading. Also, there are also people who just aren’t seeing any tweets. So, it seems that this reversal is still in the process.
There could be a good reason behind the changes
Right now, we can’t confirm 100% what Elon is saying, but he did explain why he’s doing this. It has something to do with the next frontier in technology, AI. AI language models need to be trained with a ton of data. Well, where does that data come from?
Companies like OpenAI and Google (and the company just admitted this) scrape data from the internet, and they get data from everywhere. A lot of this data comes from social media. According to Elon Musk, due to so much of this data scraping from tweets, Twitter is having some major internal issues. This is, according to Musk, one of the reasons behind the rate limit and requiring people to be logged in to view tweets.
Whether that’s the case, it’s good to see that Twitter is walking back this change.
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