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Twitter is a bad place to share original content these days

It might be but it's an interminable debate that's mostly HN-offtopic since its been long rendered uninteresting through sheer repetition.



I don't think that's the case.

I have seen plenty of complaints on here about Twitter in general, but I don't think the specific point that the new registration wall makes it a bad place to post original content has been discussed much here at all.

Happy to be proved wrong.

Edit: proving myself wrong here: it looks like links to nitter show up in comments here every few days, so the fact that the Twitter registration wall needs to be bypassed is actually pretty well understood. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...


It is so much the case there's a site guideline about it plus countless mod comments.

The registration thing is just like the paywall thing - if there are workarounds, it's fine.


As someone that has never had a Twitter account, I used to be able to see more of the "thread" or whatever it's called. Something has recently changed to where that's no longer the case and I can now only see the first post with absolutely zero way to access the rest.


Yes that sucks, the trouble is commentary on how and why it sucks tends to (inadvertently) take over the thread which is what the GP comment did and which is why they're better avoided/get moderated.




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