Visit Twitter without signing into your account. Simply navigate around the website. Try accessing your favorite tweet in a web browser on your desktop or mobile device, or look at the profile of your favorite creator.
As of late, Twitter has started preventing visitors from accessing the website unless they are logged into their account. Users will be directed to a page where they may login or create an account on the platform if they visit any Twitter page other than the homepage while not signed in. Without logging in, visitors cannot read any user content.
To view tweets, users will now need to have a Twitter account, a change that owner Elon Musk described as a “temporary emergency measure” on Friday. The platform will prompt users who attempt to access information to either create an account or log into an existing account in order to view their favorite tweets.
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, has already expressed his opposition to the use of Twitter data by AI firms like OpenAI to train their language models. In reality, Musk turned off OpenAI’s access to the platform’s data in December, just after acquiring Twitter, since he believed the AI business wasn’t paying enough for it. However, since then, OpenAI has released a plugin for its well-known ChatGPT AI chatbot that enables users to scrape data from any website, including Twitter.
“We were getting data stolen so frequently that it was lowering the quality of service for regular users,” Posted in a tweet by Musk. He continued by saying that at least hundreds of organisation were “extremely aggressively” harvesting Twitter data.
Musk has already indicated his concern with artificial intelligence companies leveraging Twitter’s data to train their huge language models, such as OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT.
He declared, “We will unquestionably pursue legal action against individuals who stole our data and look forward to seeing them in court, which will hopefully be in 2 to 3 years from now.
In a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in May, Musk’s attorney Alex Spiro requested the tech giant to audit its usage of Twitter content on the grounds that the Windows developer had broken a contract over the use of the social media company’s data.
The business has started a number of initiatives to win back advertisers that abandoned the platform while it was still under Musk’s control and to boost subscription revenue by adding verification check marks.
In an effort to expand beyond digital advertising, Twitter had earlier in the month revealed plans to concentrate on creator, video, and commerce partnerships.
Twitter, an application programming interface (API) used by researchers and third-party programs, has recently begun charging users for access.
