God, twitter has gotten really frustrating. They constantly bug you about signing up and restrict what you can view of the site without one. It'd probably frustrated me less if they just didn't...
God, twitter has gotten really frustrating. They constantly bug you about signing up and restrict what you can view of the site without one. It'd probably frustrated me less if they just didn't allow you to view anything on Twitter without an account rather than give me functionality in piecemeal.
I guess it's probably pretty entitled of me, but I really just want to occasionally view someone's tweets and replies without being hounded to give Twitter my personal information. /rant
I think the precedent is unfortunately set like that now. Discord for example is getting more pushy with requiring phone verification, and you cannot access any content at all via VPN. A...
I think the precedent is unfortunately set like that now. Discord for example is getting more pushy with requiring phone verification, and you cannot access any content at all via VPN.
A workaround long existed for Twitter in that you could visit the mobile version of the site and view content more freely, but they seem to have caught on and patched that over fairly recently
This is a bit unrelated, but if anyone is looking for an alternative to the official Twitter Android app (you still need to sign in), Twidere (F-Droid, Google Play) is open-source and miles ahead...
This is a bit unrelated, but if anyone is looking for an alternative to the official Twitter Android app (you still need to sign in), Twidere (F-Droid, Google Play) is open-source and miles ahead of the official Twitter app. It's probably the most impressive FOSS app I've seen. It also has Mastodon support, but I haven't tried it out.
Unfortunately, Twitter's recent changes to their API has crippled third-party apps. https://9to5mac.com/2018/08/07/twitter-api-change-tweetbot-twitterrific/...
Unfortunately, Twitter's recent changes to their API has crippled third-party apps.
I don't understand the objection to creating an account. You can do that easily enough even if you don't fill in any personal info on your own page. My husband did just that. He's never posted, he...
I don't understand the objection to creating an account. You can do that easily enough even if you don't fill in any personal info on your own page. My husband did just that. He's never posted, he never publicly Likes anything, he has no photo or whatnot. But it lets him look at tweets and threads.
You can see what someone posts (as long as you have a Twitter account), by creating a Twitter list. You don't have to Follow the individual; just add him to a private list, and he'll never know.
There are lots of third party apps that make Twitter far more usable than the web or mobile client. On the desktop I use Hootsuite, which has a freemium model. (If you're using it only for lurking, you'll never run into its limitations, which are based on scheduled posts.)
Hootsuite (and other such clients) lets you create a separate tab for each list, whether your own or a public list someone else created. So I can scan what's happening among, say, the baseball people I follow; or I can look at my Fashion Porn list; or I can look at a list of women developers. That lets me segment my day, or at least focus on one thing at a time.
I wrote a book about Twitter. I'm happy to help by explaining its use.
You could use an RSS feed for each account you want to follow (TwitRss) and add them all to an RSS reader (I like Feeder on Android).
I forgot I wanted to do this for dril, thanks for putting the idea back in my head! Works nicely.
God, twitter has gotten really frustrating. They constantly bug you about signing up and restrict what you can view of the site without one. It'd probably frustrated me less if they just didn't allow you to view anything on Twitter without an account rather than give me functionality in piecemeal.
I guess it's probably pretty entitled of me, but I really just want to occasionally view someone's tweets and replies without being hounded to give Twitter my personal information. /rant
I have a Twitter account but if I've been sent potentially NSFW content, I'm opening it in incognito mode, and the login prompts annoy me to no end.
I think the precedent is unfortunately set like that now. Discord for example is getting more pushy with requiring phone verification, and you cannot access any content at all via VPN.
A workaround long existed for Twitter in that you could visit the mobile version of the site and view content more freely, but they seem to have caught on and patched that over fairly recently
That would be a fantastic idea. Doubt Twitter would be very happy with it though.
This is a bit unrelated, but if anyone is looking for an alternative to the official Twitter Android app (you still need to sign in), Twidere (F-Droid, Google Play) is open-source and miles ahead of the official Twitter app. It's probably the most impressive FOSS app I've seen. It also has Mastodon support, but I haven't tried it out.
Sorry, I'm not sure, but from a quick search, it looks like there are plenty of alternate Twitter apps on iOS, not sure about FOSS ones though.
Unfortunately, Twitter's recent changes to their API has crippled third-party apps.
Great idea! I'd try the RSS suggestion and I'll see if I can make something
I don't understand the objection to creating an account. You can do that easily enough even if you don't fill in any personal info on your own page. My husband did just that. He's never posted, he never publicly Likes anything, he has no photo or whatnot. But it lets him look at tweets and threads.
You can see what someone posts (as long as you have a Twitter account), by creating a Twitter list. You don't have to Follow the individual; just add him to a private list, and he'll never know.
There are lots of third party apps that make Twitter far more usable than the web or mobile client. On the desktop I use Hootsuite, which has a freemium model. (If you're using it only for lurking, you'll never run into its limitations, which are based on scheduled posts.)
Hootsuite (and other such clients) lets you create a separate tab for each list, whether your own or a public list someone else created. So I can scan what's happening among, say, the baseball people I follow; or I can look at my Fashion Porn list; or I can look at a list of women developers. That lets me segment my day, or at least focus on one thing at a time.
I wrote a book about Twitter. I'm happy to help by explaining its use.