Elon Musk has confirmed reports that users need to be logged in to view any part of Twitter. He called it a temporary emergency measure in response to data pillaging, as he puts it.
It was widely reported yesterday that Twitter could no longer be accessed, at all, without first signing into the platform. Elon Musk has now tweeted in response to all the coverage explaining that the step is just a temporary emergency measure to fight data pillaging, as he calls it.
In a recent change to the website, any attempt to view tweets or a Twitter profile causes a login prompt to appear. If a user decided to close the popup without logging in, they would be bounced to the website’s homepage.
