Comment by frollogaston

Soon after he bought Twitter, it got changed to requiring login to do anything at all. Even before that, Twitter was super eager to ban new accounts for no reason, while old ones seemed to be grandfathered in.

This coincided with tech companies broadly moving to profit-taking over growth. Even before LLMs took off, everything started locking down. Making a Google account used to take nothing, now you need a phone number. It'd be wise to sign up for possibly useful free accounts while you still can.