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To save people some time, here’s the tweet: https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248
by alblue 6y ago
To save people some time, here’s the tweet:
https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248
In essence, the approach was:
* Find out what the tweet id is of a recent tweet
* Find out what a tweet is shortly after
* Estimate the rate of new tweets appearing
* Publish a tweet with a reference to a tweet with a now+guess id
The write up is well done and interesting but a little long winded.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoI'm seeing this: > This is not available to you
- mulmen 6y agoThat's a common Twitter bug, just try again a few times.
- chris_wot 6y agoNope, I'm assuming that's someone on Twitter noticing what he did and hiding it.
- gowld 6y agoOr the software just doesn't handle it.
- tyrust 6y agoWhy the speculation from you and the parent? You can literally click on the Tweet and see that it works fine.
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoWhen I click on the tweet, it shows the URL in the text and where the quoted inset should be it instead reads "This Tweet is unavailable." The parent and grandparent are speculating because it works for them but not for others here.
- mulmen 6y agoIt's definitely a common Twitter bug. "This is not available to you." is something different from "This Tweet is unavailable."
- EB-Barrington 6y agoI have "This Tweet is unavailable."
- mulmen 6y agoYes, that is a completely different thing. "This is not available to you." comes up in place of the content in the Twitter UI.
- est31 6y agoAlternatively, replace twitter.com in the URL with nitter.net. It points to an alternative client.
- thursday0987 6y agosure, if you want to give your twitter credentials to some random company based in the caribbean.
- boogies 6y agoWhat? https://nitter.net/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 https://nitter.net/quinetweet/status/1309951041321013248 doesn’t ask for credentials and AFAIK there’s no place to enter them on the whole site, unless you type them into the search bar.
- cortesoft 6y agoIt still shows up as "tweet unavailable" for me, though, in this link
- estebank 6y agoWhat you're seeing is an available tweet with an embedded tweet that is kept from being displayed. Because the embedded tweet is itself, it is handled by showing the same UI as any embedded tweet that is not available.
- cortesoft 6y agoRight, but my point is the behavior is the same on Twitter and nitter
- est31 6y ago"tweet unavailable" is a different error from the "This is not available to you" message. Got that message earlier today when I tried to open a different linked tweet. Changing to nitter fixed it for me.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoYou were right, it worked this time.
- oneeyedpigeon 6y agoIf it's the same bug I frequently see, manually refreshing the page by hitting enter in the address bar always fixes it for me.
- OisinMoran 6y agoYes unfortunately Twitter's UI doesn't seem to handle recursive quote tweets, which was the main disappointment for me. I'm puzzled at those saying it does work as all I've ever gotten for the _quoted_ tweet was: > This Tweet is unavailable. But perhaps they are just talking about the actual tweet. Anyone at Twitter here that can give an indication of where this is on the roadmap?
- OisinMoran 6y agoThank you! The reason for experimenting with a sort of blow-by-blow report style here and detailing the full and true journey of the idea was that I feel the whole process from idea to artifact is not written about enough. That said, it can often be hard to fully pinpoint the actual inception of an idea and just thinking about this one yesterday I realised that the idea likely came up while traversing a long chain of quote tweets. I really appreciate the feedback though—it's especially useful as I'm only starting to publish regularly now so have lots to learn—so thanks again.
- Debug_Overload 6y agoThe write-up was great, actually. The whole point of sharing the article is to read about the process and the technical details, I don't know why people insist on these cheap TL;DRs.
- OisinMoran 6y agoThank you!
- delecti 6y agoI think enough people want that kind of TL;DR that it's reasonable to put one right up front. I see a similar sort of thing with DIY projects, where they tend to get better attention if the first picture is the finished product, and then it works you through the process. It's partly to placate people who only want to see the finished product, but it also gives enough of a hook to everyone else that I suspect some people will read the article who otherwise wouldn't.
- llamataboot 6y agoI loved the write up, especially those basic things all experienced programmers know but sometimes makes newer ones scared, like sometimes you don't quite know how the answer works exactly at first, or sometimes you have a big idea and a lack of double quotes is your problem, etc etc
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- thefrog 6y agoLong winded but appropriately so given the technical nature of the article.