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Yeah, it started happening for me on my laptop yesterday. Can read a person's feed if I have a direct link, but can't do much else, including clicking through to threads. Luckily my desktop still works. But probably not for long. Oh well, my minimal Twitter usage is probably about to drop to zero, so, congrats Twitter.
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Just run some tests - Safari on laptop and iphone is requiring me to sign in, Firefox on same laptop currently isn't and I can navigate twitter freely, as before. I don't have a twitter account.
i suppose it may have something to do with the cookie settings in the two programs, they are a little different but I'm not inclined to play around with them to find out.
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Didn't really know where else to post this, but a good post on Elon Musk's stake in Twitter
https://www.profgalloway.com/elon/
We found out Elon was Twitter’s largest shareholder on Monday morning, because that’s when he disclosed his holdings to the SEC, as required of anyone who acquires more than 5% of a public company. Only Elon filed the wrong form, and he filed it nearly two weeks late. He filed the form for “passive” investors — and if you’ve been talking to the CEO for the past few weeks about joining the board and changing the product, you are not a “passive” investor.
Elon filed the correct form (Schedule 13D) the next day, but it requires more fulsome disclosures, which revealed he had crossed the 5% threshold on March 14. Meaning he’d been obligated to disclose his stake back on March 24. By illegally concealing his stake for 11 days, Musk was able to continue buying shares from sellers who didn’t know he was accumulating a huge position. Had he disclosed his shares properly on March 24, TWTR would have shot up 25% then, instead of on April 4, and the shares he bought subsequently would have garnered selling shareholders approximately $150 million more. That’s fraud, and while I have increasingly less confidence in the SEC, Congress has recently beefed up its power to seek disgorgement of ill-gotten gains for securities law violations. Shareholder lawsuits may also be in the offing.
Even if the SEC acts, $150 million is immaterial to Elon. On a relative basis, his entire $2.5 billion investment in Twitter is about the price of a MacBook for the average household. A $150 million fine is buying an extra charger. Takerists such as Elon are exempt from the law — they can buy their own. The rest of us would be left with a Musk-flavored Twitter, which would look similar to the replies to his announcement: a septic tank of crypto scams, far-right blather, and screeching wokeism. For all his complaints about “free speech,” Elon has always been able to speak his mind. Or if not, what hasn’t he said?
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I'm going to assume that my user experience likely won't change at all unless there's some sort of subscription model introduced. But if he reduces moderation as has been promised, then people who I don't know but who I like will probably have a much worse experience, which sucks.
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