In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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    1 year ago

    Because that works so well for Pinterest right? I mean, we all have Pinterest accounts so we can access all that content on Pinterest don’t we?

    Oh… we don’t? People add -site:pinterest.com to their google searches to avoid the site entirely? Well then… dang.

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        1 year ago

        Or not anymore, anyway. Google’s algorithm seems to have come to the conclusion that pinterest isn’t worth linking as much anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Twitter is going even harder than Pinterest. They’re not even showing a preview of the content, they’re just immediately redirecting users to a login page before seeing anything at all.