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 Hello all! 

Hope are you doing well now that we are starting to get into the thick of things!

After just completing our assignment due on the 31st, the experience reminded me of one of my pet peeves. Having to log in to a social media platform that I have no interest in participating in just to see some content. I had to use my brothers X (twitter) account in order to finish my assignment as I had no intention of making one. This has happened to me several times when trying to read an article, trying to see someone's post, or attempting to just look at some pictures. While I understand newspapers having to make you pay a subscription to read their content (they have to make a living pass advertising I can imagine) the fact that something as small as twitter or tumbler content needing to have. The following article makes a good point as to why this can backfire on company's: if content isn't available, the search engines could rank their results as lower.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/twitter-now-requires-an-account-to-view-tweets/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAC2gE1XlC_xkDmdDet_R6UrmniQnBRoZ9hGy79yWUidWYJDbdYyvbUT9vEybBZDvBNNHaKsfwQIi1Ms_EbjhiaNAIV9KClMAhf09HQ2cqgffDZNlGWek4xen2wqsuAF3LAND4k9BDJN34qsMy2u2SVlJ2RvQ56XRe6Hwe2p55QOb

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  1. Samantha MatherneOctober 24, 2023 at 3:50 PM

    Last night I complained to my husband about needing a Twitter X account to view tweets. (Xes? So confusing. Posts? Musk we make this so complicated?) Government leaders and major news organizations often post to X as a quick way to get news out to the public, and blocking access to that information for anyone who does not have an account seems detrimental to society. Even Facebook allows people without accounts (like me) to view posts made by public organizations. I've referred to Twitter in the past to check about online services for companies like Netflix, Hulu, Goodreads, and Hoopla being down. Now I suppose I'll connect Google to one more aspect of me by logging into X through my Google account.

    I love seeing in that article how this blocking of access to X posts without an account means search engine optimization could fall for X. That's music to my ears. Or as the birds say, tweet tweet!

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  2. Ramona CorletteOctober 24, 2023 at 7:19 PM

    I only used the site formerly known as Twitter when it first came out, but I could never stay consistent with the platform. The most ridiculous thing is that people pay for the infamous blue check mark. This blue check mark used to be a safety measure, so the average person couldn't impersonate celebrities or world leaders. What's more ludicrous is people are actually paying. I'm cheap– will always trump my desire for notoriety.

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