Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets
The Hindu
Twitter will require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets as an “emergency measure.”
Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure".
Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an existing account to see their favourite tweets.
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" Musk said in a tweet.
He added that hundreds of organisations or more were scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", affecting user experience.
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Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter's data to train their large language models.
"We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now," he said.
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