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Re: "@" on Twitter

#2

Post by isp »

At least two usernameless Twitter profiles exist:

https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=34313404

https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=71996998

(credit: https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/989868697660477440 )

It is possible to retweet-with-quote the tweets, but not to retweet directly or (as far as I can tell) to link to individual tweets directly.

EDIT: It is possible to link to individual tweets. Added links.

The user says (tweet_id 989794618467409920 - https://twitter.com/i/web/status/989794618467409920 ) that there are "many bugs" using the account in various clients.

tweet_id 829989674353573889 ( https://twitter.com/i/web/status/829989674353573889 ) may be my all-time favourite tweet. (A tweet by @, with name @, contents @)

Re: "@" on Twitter

#4

Post by enthdegree »

isp wrote: post #2

At least two usernameless Twitter profiles exist: https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=34313404 https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=71996998 (credit: https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/989868697660477440 ) It is possible to retweet-with-quote the tweets, but not to retweet directly or (as far as I can tell) to link to individual tweets directly. EDIT: It is possible to link to individual tweets. Added link…

How could such an account have been created?

Re: "@" on Twitter

#5

Post by oh_sigh »

enthdegree wrote: post #4
isp wrote: post #2

At least two usernameless Twitter profiles exist: https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=34313404 https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=71996998 (credit: https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/989868697660477440 ) It is possible to retweet-with-quote the tweets, but not to retweet directly or (as far as I can tell) to link to individual tweets directly. EDIT: It is possible to link to individual tweets. Added link…

How could such an account have been created?

Hard to say without knowing the code, but one common problem is to do something like length checking a username to ensure it is a certain length, and then later stripping out illegal characters.

Re: "@" on Twitter

#6

Post by jakevn »

enthdegree wrote: post #4
isp wrote: post #2

At least two usernameless Twitter profiles exist: https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=34313404 https://twitter.com/intent/user?user_id=71996998 (credit: https://twitter.com/FakeUnicode/status/989868697660477440 ) It is possible to retweet-with-quote the tweets, but not to retweet directly or (as far as I can tell) to link to individual tweets directly. EDIT: It is possible to link to individual tweets. Added link…

How could such an account have been created?

Possibly a difference in implementation of unicode between validation and persistence/use. Validates successfully due to one or more "valid" unicode characters -> translated to zero characters due to stripping of invalid unicode character at some point after validation.

Re: "@" on Twitter

#7

Post by [deleted] »

oh_sigh wrote: post #5
enthdegree wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How could such an account have been created?

Hard to say without knowing the code, but one common problem is to do something like length checking a username to ensure it is a certain length, and then later stripping out illegal characters.

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Re: "@" on Twitter

#9

Post by geuis »

How big is twitter’s engineering department? Their mobile website doesn’t even load the content of the tweet. Yesterday it was throwing an error that the api was rate limited. For their own site! They’ve been systematically destroying their own foundation by alienating the developer community for years and they can’t even get their own product to work reliably.
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