Ask HN: Can you view tweets while logged out?

10 points by mellonaut 2 years ago | 6 comments

I don't have a twitter account, nor do I want one. I do, however, occasionally want to read a tweet since relevant information is shared there. Since today it seems I am no longer able to veiw any tweets without being redirected to /login. Is my IP address in some sort of A/B test or is this the new norm? It surprises me, since after the Musk takeover the loginwall that existed on mobile was gone.

Alternative front-ends like nitter.net still seem to work, so that might be interesting to know if you're running into the same thing.

See also this discussion from when they did a similar thing 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263

pndy 2 years ago |

Can view these via nitter proxies but then NSFW posts are totally blocked for 2 months or so, show this message instead:

Age-restricted adult content. This content might not be appropriate for people under 18 years old. To view this media, you’ll need to log in to Twitter.

or are completely gone from the stream

anthk 2 years ago |

https://esmailelbob.xyz

Here you have different front-ends for propietary services.

Replace "twitter.com" with "nitter.esmailelbob.xyz" for every URL.

For convenience, you can try Libredirect for Firefox, and IceRaven from FDroid as a Firefox alternative for Android.

mellonaut 2 years ago | |

Thanks! That's a nice resource, some of those I did not yet know about

anthk 2 years ago | | |

If you install Libredirect and head to the settings, you can use the Esmailelbob instances for lots of services. I suggest such instances because these are the ones which worked better.

ezekg 2 years ago |

You can also apparently replace the link with the embed subdomain: https://platform.twitter.com/embed/Tweet.html?id=16751879694...

vistu 2 years ago |

No, has been broken for me. Also means a lot of bridges to mastodon have been burnt, which I certainly notice in my feed.