Reading twitter without an account
July 2, 2022 5:57 PM Subscribe
Twitter is blocked for me suddenly today, how do I read people's tweets without an account. Details inside.
It worked yesterday with a private window but isn't working today. I am going to the user's account page and reading the tweets from there. Nothing on askme within the last year and a half fits my situation and googling gets me lots of things that are old and don't seem to fit.
I want to read people's tweets on specific user accounts (so not browsing hashtags or searching topics). On android. No app. No joining. Chrome preferred or firefox. Nitter seems to only be for desktop. TYVM!
It worked yesterday with a private window but isn't working today. I am going to the user's account page and reading the tweets from there. Nothing on askme within the last year and a half fits my situation and googling gets me lots of things that are old and don't seem to fit.
I want to read people's tweets on specific user accounts (so not browsing hashtags or searching topics). On android. No app. No joining. Chrome preferred or firefox. Nitter seems to only be for desktop. TYVM!
They're occasionally aggressive this way, I noticed it earlier myself. I have solved it in the past by opening the link in an incognito or private window. It may be that they are tracking how many times you've visited the site and past a certain point they start bugging you.
You can usually delete cookies for a certain site individually. In Firefox you go to settings>security>manage data, then search for "twitter." You don't have to delete your whole history, just the cookies.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 9:18 PM on July 2, 2022
You can usually delete cookies for a certain site individually. In Firefox you go to settings>security>manage data, then search for "twitter." You don't have to delete your whole history, just the cookies.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 9:18 PM on July 2, 2022
Response by poster: I'm embarrassed that the answer was so easy but I'm grateful the answer was so easy. Thanks zamboni, that seems to be working for me . (BlackLeotardFront, my browsers are not making it easy to pick out and delete just one cookie, I'd have to delete all of them and that's a bit of a pain to fill back in. Not un-doable but more than I want to do every day)
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 10:30 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by Rufous-headed Towhee heehee at 10:30 PM on July 2, 2022 [1 favorite]
I'm using the Bypass Twitter Login Wall extension on Firefox for desktop. It puts an icon onto the main toolbar, and whenever I get the "See more tweets from XXXXX" nag banner, I click the icon and it goes away, at least for a little while.
posted by hangashore at 12:07 PM on July 3, 2022
posted by hangashore at 12:07 PM on July 3, 2022
Best answer: The aggressive redirect to the login/signup page on the mobile browser got suddenly worse for me very recently too, even after deleting the cookies, but I accidentally realized if I hit the login button but then just X out of that page, it sends me right back and I can continue browsing Twitter again without being logged in.
posted by KatlaDragon at 4:32 PM on July 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
posted by KatlaDragon at 4:32 PM on July 3, 2022 [1 favorite]
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posted by zamboni at 6:11 PM on July 2, 2022 [2 favorites]