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dhosek on Aug 24, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Twitter starts to require login to view tweets

One option would be to just allow people to view public tweets without requiring sign in.

rkeene2 on Aug 24, 2021 [–]

It doesn't achieve the stated goal of rate-limiting individual people, which sounds like an instrumental goal for an actual (unstated) business objective.

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