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Offtopic, I don’t use Twitter, how do Twitter thread and reply ranking work? What confuses me is that when I click Elon’s tweet, Jimmy’s reply is nowhere to be

• Hamuko 3y ago
  It's not a "reply", it's a "quote (retweet)". They don't show up in the replies. Not that it'd show up anyways unless Jimmy pays $8. Elon changed it so that paychecks are ranked higher in replies than normal users.
• deleted 3y ago
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• cpach 3y ago
  This was a “quote tweet”. Think of it as a way to embed a tweet within your own tweet. Quote tweets are not displayed as replies.
• permo-w 3y ago
  also offtopic, but I really feel like Elon is the addict that bought the farm I find I start to become ruder and less considerate if I spend even a few days on reddit, never mind 10+ years on twitter. you need a break. you need to hang around normal people who have a filter and don’t just mindlessly agree with you or angrily shout at you for being wrong. you don’t need to be financially and pridefully locked into a death bond with the system that provides the drug maybe this is why he tried to back out of the purchase. a moment of clarity perhaps
• helsinkiandrew 3y ago
  This is one of my biggest peeves with Twitter, it takes ages to figure out what people are talking about without wading through a lot of contentless replies. Promoting verified users tweets has seemed to make the problem worse