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Fun fact, Twitter's feed is still kinda broken. If you visit the site after being gone for a week or so it tells your timeline is empty. It recovers after a few minutes, but its still a pretty poor user experience.


I see a fair amount of stuff that's badly broken.

- Analytics.twitter.com numbers changing unexpectedly, being zeroed out temporarily, inconsistent numbers

- Deleting tweets and having them not show up on my timeline but still show up in search weeks later.

- The repeating timeline bug, you're going down the timeline and after a while it loses its place and repeats tweets you saw a couple of minutes ago

- People who have blocked me (gah) but I still see their tweets in certain apps.

tbh I see some strange stuff on Facebook and Reddit sometimes and granted it's hard to do what they do at scale. But Facebook and Google products seem to evolve a lot more over the years.


I always get a message saying the request took too long to execute, if I click a link leading to Twitter. Have to reload the page a couple of times to make it work.

Usually don't click on Twitter links for this reason.


Yes, I get "rate limited" on a single request on mobile web quite often. It's strange.


If I go to Twitter on my mobile phone (using Brave, not their interface), I consistently got an error message preventing me from seeing anything. It says I apparently hit Twitter too many times (when I try to load a single tweet).


Twitter prioritizes availability over Consistency.




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