Security News > 2023 > June > Twitter now forces you to sign in to view tweets

BleepingComputer did not reach out to Twitter because the media contact email has been set up to auto-reply with a crappy emoji after Elon Musk acquired the company in October and took over as CEO. Back in April, Twitter disabled the search field for unregistered users and only showing several suggested tweets when going to the homepage.

Twitter also capped its free API in early February, asking for at least $100 per month when requesting write or read access to large amounts of tweets.

While there is no official explanation from Twitter for this recent move to close down the platform even further, some believe this might be an effort to block data scrapers from accessing tweets.

Last month, Twitter also rolled out encrypted direct messages, a feature currently limited to Twitter Blue subscribers.

On May 1st, a worldwide Twitter outage logged out users en masse, preventing them from signing back into their accounts.

Twitter says 'security incident' exposed private Circle tweets.

News URL

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/twitter-now-forces-you-to-sign-in-to-view-tweets/