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I would imagine Twitter would have access to analytics that third parties don't have, which would allow them to pretty easily work out which accounts are logged in and used for browsing and which are actually abandoned.


As a small complication: I have a twitter account, doubt I've ever tweeted. I browse twitter quite often, but I'm _never_ logged in.

No idea if I should be counted or not in any particular bucket, or how anyone would know.


AFAIK, you're not counted in any bucket. That's one reason TWTR wants you to log in to read. So active user numbers go up.


I thought they used a banner that pretty much forced you to log in to see more than the first few tweets in a thread now (same as instagram)?

I have an account that is logged in, but it has only sent 7 tweets since 2014 (and they're only to customer service accounts).


It doesn't seem to. A few months back it was ~forcing for a bit so I moved to nitter.


What client are you using that allows you to browse without logging in?


Opening a Twitter link in a private tab is the low complexity solution, or there's nitter.net, or deleting cookies, or various browser extensions that delete cookies for you.


I had no idea it was so strict. I just use Firefox. Their cookie behavior must be picky enough that it bypasses whatever nonsense Twitter is doing?


After posting that, I went back and retested. It looks like they have swapped back to a soft nag popup. For a few months it was hard blocking any further scrolling, at least with Chrome.


That's quite possible, I did move to nitter for a while, some months back, due to that.


Firefox :shrug: . It's never forced me. When it gets too annoying trying to push me to login I move to nitter.


Private browsing mode ("incognito" in Chrome)




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