Techcrunch blog!: Twitter quietly reverses new policy that forced users to log in to read tweets

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Today, Twitter's new login requirement for viewing tweets came in like a lion and apparently went out like a lamb. Yes, it's July not March, but you can't help but picture Twitter executives quietly crossing that idea off their list and trying to forget it ever happened. Also, if you use TweetDeck, you'll want to take note of this new policy.

Meanwhile, French accounting startup Dougs took its first funding after bootstrapping for the past eight years. Find out why it took the VC plunge.

Going back to that Twitter item for a moment, while we don't know what is on Elon Musk's mind until he tweets it, it's probably no coincidence that the social media giant walked back that login requirement a day after news of Meta’s Threads app came out. Threads is Instagram's Twitter competitor, dropping tomorrow, and already gives you built-in follow and follower bases from your IG account. And you can read posts without an account. However, there are already rumblings that the Threads app won't have ActivityPub support at launch and the app is already a bit of a privacy nightmare. So much so that it won’t launch in the EU yet.

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