Perhaps most readers haven't tried accessing Twitter in a web browser without allowing its Javascript to run (NoScript). That stopped working years ago, putting up a page saying it was redirecting you to the old interface, but then it actually just looped back to the same redirect page endlessly.

Most recently, if you try to read a Twitter thread without being logged-in to Twitter, it stops you at a certain point in the thread and refuses to let you go on. Popup: "See more Tweets from [username]. When you log in youâ(TM)ll be able to see every Tweet from [username]." And when you don't log in -- you'll go read some other website that is friendlier to the freedom to read without tracking and spying on every reader.

It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way their wind is blowing...