{"id":4663,"date":"2023-07-01T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=4663"},"modified":"2023-07-01T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T05:44:34","slug":"twitter-now-needs-users-to-sign-in-to-view-tweets-owner-elon-musk-calls-it-temporary-emergency-measure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bscrackers.com\/?p=4663","title":{"rendered":"Twitter Now Needs Users to Sign In to View Tweets, Owner Elon Musk Calls it \u2018Temporary Emergency Measure\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/twitter_reuters_1688190231233.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>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 &#8220;temporary emergency measure&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!&#8221; Musk said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>He added that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data &#8220;extremely aggressively&#8221;, affecting user experience.<\/p>\n<p>Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, using Twitter&#8217;s data to train their large language models.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data &amp; look forward to seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk&#8217;s lawyer Alex Spiro in May asked the tech giant to conduct an audit of its use of Twitter&#8217;s content, alleging the Windows developer violated an agreement over using the social media company&#8217;s data.<\/p>\n<p>The company has initiated a range of measures to bring back advertisers who left the platform under Musk&#8217;s ownership and to increase subscription revenue by making verification check marks a part of the Twitter Blue program.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the month, Twitter had announced plans to focus on video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media company&#8217;s business beyond digital advertising.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has also begun charging users to access its application programming interface (API), used by third-party apps and researchers.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"no\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/category\/embed\/site\/classic\/id\/708513\/autostart\/0\/pWidth\/100\/pHeight\/100\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><i>(This story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"downloadtxt\"><i>Affiliate links may be automatically generated &#8211; see our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/ethics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ethics statement<\/a> for details.<\/i><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/apps\/news\/twitter-log-in-view-tweets-owner-elon-musk-temporary-emergency-measure-4168160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] 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 &#8220;temporary emergency measure&#8221;. 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