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Off topic for this particular submission but on topic for Twitter submissions in general: is anyone else rate limited like 90 % of the time when accessing Twitt

Off topic for this particular submission but on topic for Twitter submissions in general: is anyone else rate limited like 90 % of the time when accessing Twitter using the mobile browser on mobile data? Maybe it is because I'm signed out of Twitter in Safari, but I can't read most of the tweets and threads posted to HN.

pfortuny 7y ago
El just get a “unable to load” in the twitter page (or similar message). It goes away if I just reload the page... ?
- tomashubelbauer 7y ago
  Unfortunately for me no amount of reloading fixes it. When it works, it is for no obvious reason except that maybe I got lucky and other users on the same CGNAT my cell service provider is using weren't using Twitter for a while so it's my turn in the Twitters IP white list.
janpot 7y ago
Yes, me, I always have to tap my way out of some nagging dialogs that ask me to log in, or download the app. Then I'm rate limited. I then have to go back and click the link again before I can view it. 100% of the time.
song 7y ago
I've never ever clicked on a twitter link on my mobile phone and seen anything else than the rate limited message. Only way to get around it is to check "Request Desktop Site" but that's an annoying workaround. Never understood how such a major website could be this broken.
Yetanfou 7y ago
Use a different browser, something like Privacy Browser [1] which enables custom Javascript/referer/cookie/etc. settings. For Twitter I tend to block anything and everything which makes it revert to its non-JS page. Enabling Javascript gives the normal page without all those popups and app nags. I have never been rate limited. I am a passive Twitter reader since I do not have an account there so for me this solution works, I do not know whether it is possible to actually post anything on that site in this manner. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....
Crinus 7y ago
Same here. I just switch to the "desktop version" and it works.
majewsky 7y ago
Yes, that's a dark pattern to force you to use the app. If you request a desktop site, it works immediately.
mcv 7y ago
I consider Twitter broken on mobile. It's no great loss.
newscracker 7y ago
Yes, I’ve seen this quite often and been annoyed with it. I thought it had to do with the embedded web view in certain apps or the user agent used by an app’s web view. Whenever this happens, I just skip going to that tweet. If Twitter wants to make things so frustrating and tough, I don’t need to patronize that platform further.
- basch 7y ago
  any time I click back, and click the link a second time, it loads.

pfortuny 7y ago

El just get a “unable to load” in the twitter page (or similar message). It goes away if I just reload the page... ?

tomashubelbauer 7y ago
Unfortunately for me no amount of reloading fixes it. When it works, it is for no obvious reason except that maybe I got lucky and other users on the same CGNAT my cell service provider is using weren't using Twitter for a while so it's my turn in the Twitters IP white list.

janpot 7y ago

Yes, me, I always have to tap my way out of some nagging dialogs that ask me to log in, or download the app. Then I'm rate limited. I then have to go back and click the link again before I can view it. 100% of the time.

song 7y ago

I've never ever clicked on a twitter link on my mobile phone and seen anything else than the rate limited message. Only way to get around it is to check "Request Desktop Site" but that's an annoying workaround. Never understood how such a major website could be this broken.

Yetanfou 7y ago

Use a different browser, something like Privacy Browser [1] which enables custom Javascript/referer/cookie/etc. settings. For Twitter I tend to block anything and everything which makes it revert to its non-JS page. Enabling Javascript gives the normal page without all those popups and app nags. I have never been rate limited. I am a passive Twitter reader since I do not have an account there so for me this solution works, I do not know whether it is possible to actually post anything on that site in this manner. [1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser.standard/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.stoutner.privacybrowser....

Crinus 7y ago

Same here. I just switch to the "desktop version" and it works.

majewsky 7y ago

Yes, that's a dark pattern to force you to use the app. If you request a desktop site, it works immediately.

mcv 7y ago

I consider Twitter broken on mobile. It's no great loss.

newscracker 7y ago

Yes, I’ve seen this quite often and been annoyed with it. I thought it had to do with the embedded web view in certain apps or the user agent used by an app’s web view. Whenever this happens, I just skip going to that tweet. If Twitter wants to make things so frustrating and tough, I don’t need to patronize that platform further.

basch 7y ago
any time I click back, and click the link a second time, it loads.