Why I Stopped Logging In to Read Tweets

Someone shares a tweet in a Slack channel. I click. Twitter shows me half the post, then drops a login wall. I close the tab. This happens constantly now. Public content — content that was publicly broadcast, on a public URL — has been quietly converted into gated content. Not by changing what's published, but by changing who is allowed to read without first identifying themselves. I don't think this is just a Twitter complaint. It's a design pattern that's spread across the web, and it deserves