Don’t forget that Twitter likes are also soft retweets. When I follow you and you like a tweet from someone I don’t follow, the Twitter algorithm may show the

Don’t forget that Twitter likes are also soft retweets. When I follow you and you like a tweet from someone I don’t follow, the Twitter algorithm may show the tweet to me in my timeline, marked as “X liked this”, even several days later. There’s a lot of interaction models built into Twitter that assume immutability.