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>> It's unclear to me whether the random ancient tweets thing is a 'feature' or if Twitter is just broken They started doing this a few months ago. It means if
by basisword 3y ago
>> It's unclear to me whether the random ancient tweets thing is a 'feature' or if Twitter is just broken
They started doing this a few months ago. It means if you want to see a persons latest tweets, you have to login/create an account. It's infuriating. A stupid growth tactic. My workaround for now is using Nitter. I can see how businesses linking to their Twitter (e.g. as a source for 'updates' on anything) would have issues with this.
- rewmie 3y ago> It means if you want to see a persons latest tweets, you have to login/create an account. It's infuriating. A stupid growth tactic. It's a dark pattern, and one which only the most desperate services implement as their last desperate attempt to force users to register and login at the expense of eliminating any value the platform has to them.
- WXLCKNO 3y agoIt just makes twitter look like a dead website tbh.
- endemic 3y agoyeah in the past I might have clicked thru to view a tweet, but now I don't bother.
- SamBam 3y agoThat's a really good point. When I click on a page and see the top post is from 2021, my first instinct is to assume that they no longer post there.
- ethanbond 3y agoThat’s just because you don’t know product genius when you see it
- rsynnott 3y agoOh, yep, I know they've been doing it for a while, but I'm unclear on whether it's actually _intentional_; it could be a really stupid product decision, or just more brokenness.