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Twitter's "linked" tweets seems to be strangely unattached from context. What I mean is, Twitter seems to be processing data based on whatever it is in the twe
by mrtksn 4y ago
Twitter's "linked" tweets seems to be strangely unattached from context.
What I mean is, Twitter seems to be processing data based on whatever it is in the tweet and doesn't maintain some grand coherent database.
So I changed my Twitter handle and opened a new account with my original Twitter handle and to my surprise, I was receiving notifications of engagement with tweets my old account sent previously.
I also heard that a method for spamming Twitter trending topics is to send tweets and delete them quickly.
My impression is that Twitter is big on real time processing. They definitely don't search the entire database for #YOLO tweets, instead they seem to be searching the almost-live stuff and some archived stuff(probably ranked and saved as noteworthy tweets or something).
- madeofpalk 4y agoOld stuff on twitter is weird. Tweets seem to eventually forget that You specifically liked a tweet, and will allow you to like a tweet again, and the like count will reflect you liking it twice.
- kaba0 4y agoLike count is almost surely just a locally incremented number, your like request will eventually get processed and will be dropped if it was already liked. It only has to be an eventually consistent value.
- madeofpalk 4y agoThis is beyond optimistic updates (which twitter also has plenty of issues with - you'll reply to your tweet and it'll jump immediately to two replies, but on refresh just show your one).