[croes]

>getting running cost down may have made twitter long term viable.

That may have worked, but Musk limited the reach of tweets by only allowing logged-in users to see the entire thread and comments.

Not to mention insulting advertisers.

[dogma1138]

Ads are still visible when you aren’t logged on, in fact they take a fare greater real estate of the screen now so Elon’s antics aside as far as advertisers go they get a better deal now.

Before the change you could scroll down past the ads for the rest of the thread, now you only see the linked tweet and then ads.

[croes]

But it makes less sense to visit a Twitter link in the first place.

Without Nitter Twitter links are useless to me.

[AstralStorm]

And Nitter instances get seriously rate limited now, so...