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More importantly twitter profiles are public by default. That's not true for most social media.



In my opinion that's not more important. Also because they contains almost no information.


More importantly to who? To me and all developers that I know, this isn't the most important. A good and reliable API is.


More important to everyone but developers?


Or even developers if you like data.


> More importantly twitter profiles are public by default. That's not true for most social media.

Maybe, but now logged-out users (or users without an account) cannot see more than the last few tweets on an account.

Twitter is a lot less open than it was two or three years ago, and while it's more public-by-default than Facebook, it's less public-by-default than Blogger was.


Wait, what? I don't have a Twitter account, but still follow several people's Twitter feeds. I've never had a problem seeing their full timeline.


Maybe they've changed it, or maybe it's for certain accounts, but I've definitely seen "Log in to view more" when scrolling down.


I've never had a Twitter account, and I've never seen that.


Maybe scroll down a bit further?


I've gone back months/years on some accounts, on some lazy days. Maybe it's a desktop/mobile client thing; I'm not a twitter user, so I don't use twitter on my phone.


I'm able to view mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm in desktop Safari, and without an account view at least his previous week's posts not logged in.




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