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All of you are misinterpreting Twitter's "features" here. Most likely the root cause of this is an internal feature at Twitter called "per-country takedown."
by netik 11y ago
All of you are misinterpreting Twitter's "features" here.
Most likely the root cause of this is an internal feature at Twitter called "per-country takedown."
If someone from Germany asked (and had a valid court order) that the Tweet be taken down for German users, then Twitter has the ability to disable the Tweet for people coming from German IPs.
I don't agree with this, I lobbied heavily against it while I worked there to no avail, but it's a solid explanation for why you wouldn't be able to see a Tweet in different regions.
- epeus 11y agowhen that was announced they said it would show that the tweets had been withheld: https://blog.twitter.com/2012/tweets-still-must-flow https://blog.twitter.com/2012/tweets-still-must-flow ”Q: What will people see if content is withheld? A: If people are located in a country where a Tweet or account has been withheld and they try to view it, they will see a alert box that says “Tweet withheld” or “@Username withheld” in place of the affected Tweet or account.” Did that policy change?
- logic 11y agoepeus is right; I'm not at Twitter anymore either, but the last time I looked at this, per-country takedowns were clearly labeled as such (ie. you hit the tweet from the blocked country, you get clear "this isn't visible to you" messaging). My honest guess? Cache coherency is hard, man.
- logic 11y agoAmusing side-conversation we're having right now: apparently my reply above didn't show up immediately for some folks. Obviously, Hacker News is censoring me.
- 6t6t6 11y agoThanks! You spared me from downloading the PDF...