Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Wednesday, July 5th, 2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Chaos at Twitter emphatically did not take the 4th of July weekend off.

Instagram's Twitter clone looks like it's going to take advantage of this

chaos to launch now.

The Reddit app apocalypse has actually happened.

Oh, and the mods for Reddit's AMAs have downed tools. And finally, how

drone technology is disrupting the traditional fireworks industry. Here's what you miss today in the world

of tech. To quote the Thomas Jefferson song from

Hamilton, what did I miss? Yeah, seems the relative quiet of Twitter from recent months couldn't last forever.

Beginning right about the start of last weekend,

people started noticing things were going wrong with their usage of Twitter.

Somewhere around that same time,

Twitter itself announced that it would no longer let users browse, tweets,

user profiles, or comment on threads on the web without logging into Twitter first.

Instead, they were redirecting non-logged in people to Twitter's sign-in page, which, okay, no more free-loading.

You gotta be a user to see tweets.

Though, given that Twitter is by and large an advertising supported platform,

you'd think they'd want to reach as many people as possible with their tweets

to have as wide a possible netcast for advertisers.

But again, okay.

Soon, however, the complaints from users grew into a torrent.

Twitter users globally reported multiple site issues including seeing

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