AFAIK, you're not counted in any bucket. That's one reason TWTR wants you to log in to read. So active user numbers go up.

I thought they used a banner that pretty much forced you to log in to see more than the first few tweets in a thread now (same as instagram)?

I have an account that is logged in, but it has only sent 7 tweets since 2014 (and they're only to customer service accounts).

It doesn't seem to. A few months back it was ~forcing for a bit so I moved to nitter.

What client are you using that allows you to browse without logging in?

Opening a Twitter link in a private tab is the low complexity solution, or there's nitter.net, or deleting cookies, or various browser extensions that delete cookies for you.

I had no idea it was so strict. I just use Firefox. Their cookie behavior must be picky enough that it bypasses whatever nonsense Twitter is doing?

After posting that, I went back and retested. It looks like they have swapped back to a soft nag popup. For a few months it was hard blocking any further scrolling, at least with Chrome.

That's quite possible, I did move to nitter for a while, some months back, due to that.

Firefox :shrug: . It's never forced me. When it gets too annoying trying to push me to login I move to nitter.

Private browsing mode ("incognito" in Chrome)