[eusto]

I think this action from Twitter showed that it isn't public information. It is pretty much twitter's to do whatever they want with it.

[phatskat]

I think that’s always been known, but the tacit agreement between users and Twitter has always been “I’ll post my content and anyone can see it, if they want to engage they make an account”. From a business perspective this feels like a big negative to me for Twitter. I’ve followed several links the last few days and been prompted to login, and nothing about those links felt valuable enough to do so.