I started my Twitter account just over 15 years ago, on July 4th, 2009. I had just graduated from college into a post-2008 financial crisis economy and was spending the summer in Washington, D.C ...

Twitter will now require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure.” ...

When Twitter started enforcing the login requirement, Musk said that he took these “temporary” measures to prevent data scraping. “Temporary emergency measure.