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Reminds 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.
I achieved this by entering a greater than symbol (>) in the input field. Twitter presumably tried stripping any HTML tags, which resulted in an empty string. I'm not sure if this still works; they might have fixed that bug. Presumably something similar happened with the accounts that have empty @ handles.
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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.
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.
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…
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> 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.
‘Useless’ isn’t a strong enough word. The way it’s broken Google image search puts it way into negative a value.
Edit: Just tried it myself, might want to add a -site:pinterest.co.uk as well.
Reminds 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.
Because they couldn't determine how many spaces your username was or because of some other bug?
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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…
I turned off Javascript and it worked fantastically.
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‘Useless’ isn’t a strong enough word. The way it’s broken Google image search puts it way into negative a value.
Try adding -site:pinterest.com to your search query. Edit: Just tried it myself, might want to add a -site:pinterest.co.uk as well.
It used to be that once a week or longer I would find some amusing bug. But now it's not uncommon for that I encounter dozens of bugs daily on various popular services that are worth $millions or $billions, which is just obnoxious. Not only that, but usually the services have no way of filing a bug report or getting in touch with support.
It seems like internet giants are becoming too big for their britches, and also they're forcing each other into this insane cycle of "ship first, fix later" just to stay competitive.
What can we do about this, if anything?
Is product quality degrading on the internet over time? It used to be that once a week or longer I would find some amusing bug. But now it's not uncommon for that I encounter dozens of bugs daily on various popular services that are worth $millions or $billions, which is just obnoxious. Not only that, but usually the services have no way of filing a bug report or getting in touch with support. It seems like internet…