So, it seems like it's not possible to view this person's profile (at least on the web app in Safari)?
Also can't retweet them.
"@" on Twitter
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#12At 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?
Regex gone bad?
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#13How 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.
... And they literally just have to show you 280 characters. Thank God they are not building flying cars..
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#14How 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.
Mobile Twitter is maybe the single most useless website I’ve ever had to use lol.
Clicking on a link to a tweet has 1/20 chance of ever actually loading the tweet. All other occurrences are evenly split between loading nothing except the top bar and calling it a day, and throwing an error message. Reloading the directly or using the reload button they provide will usually result in the rate limiting message.
I don’t even bother clicking on twitter links anymore. I just hope it worked for someone else and they paste the contents in the comments.
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#15How 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.
I've seen the rate limit message a lot. Almost seems like it always happens when there is a Referer header. If you refresh after the error, it usually works. Not sure why they would punish people for linking to tweets...
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#16Reminds me on the old Commodore 64 Quantum-Link service (former version of AOL), there was a hack called 'Q-Armor' where you could get a username of all spaces, and no sysops or any chat room managers could kick you, or do anything to your account.
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#18How 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.
I've seen the rate limit message a lot. Almost seems like it always happens when there is a Referer header. If you refresh after the error, it usually works. Not sure why they would punish people for linking to tweets...
It may be from your cell network's NAT hitting rate limits on their IP.
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#19How 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.
Mobile Twitter is maybe the single most useless website I’ve ever had to use lol. Clicking on a link to a tweet has 1/20 chance of ever actually loading the tweet. All other occurrences are evenly split between loading nothing except the top bar and calling it a day, and throwing an error message. Reloading the directly or using the reload button they provide will usually result in the rate limiting message. I don’t…
> Mobile Twitter is maybe the single most useless website I’ve ever had to use lol.
Pinterest would be up there too. It's useless if you don't have an account on mobile and desktop.
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#20Slightly related but very interesting: the 2010 Twitter bug where simply tweeting "Accept [username]" would automatically force them to follow you.
My understanding is that for the sake of simpler interfaces such as SMS, which they let hold the whole service back for a long long time, they had a "follow [username]" feature - and if the person had to approve follow requests, it would send one to them. To accept the request, you just sent "accept [username]" and the follow would happen. However, they never actually checked that a request had ever been sent before allowing you to accept it, allowing you to simply force anyone to follow you with a single tweet.
Next time you make a seemingly obvious mistake, don't feel too bad. Even Twitter did it.
https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/10/does-this-twitter-bug-forc...