I would be interested to read these stories, but the twitter links only show a s...

brightlancer · on Sept 11, 2023

The Wayback Machine is pretty successful with older tweets before the login block:

Also, a shorthand for "give me the oldest copy of something" is

alexpotato · on Sept 11, 2023

You are correct.

You used to be able to read any public thread without logging in.

Then it became "only logged in users" to prevent scraping for AI training data (Apparently)

Now it's "you can see the linked tweet but not the rest of the thread unless you are logged in"