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Ask HN: Is Twitter purposely ignoring some of my actions (Favs/RT)?

1 points by sudoaza ↗ HN
It's been a while since I noticed it, since it's totally silent and the UI works properly, but looks like Twitter is ignoring all my actions that don't result in a new tweet.

I fav and/or RT a tweet, visit the tweet or reload the page and my fav and RT are gone.

If I Quote RT it works ok.

If I try to update my trending topic preferences, like Location and Personalization, it shows the changes and reloads the component, but nothing really changes and when I do open the preferences again, changes have gone back.

I disabled uBlock but didn't affect it.

I'm using a VPN to connect so wherever my exit node is I get the Trending Topics.

Has it happened to you?

2 comments

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knaq
It's political. Twitter doesn't like your type.

The fact that you can still make a new tweet doesn't mean that it gets an equal opportunity to be seen. Most likely, your tweets are kind of brushed aside, keeping you from having much of an audience.

sudoaza
I have 0 followers, there's no risk of that xD My reasoning is that maybe it's some kind of hellban or limited functionality for low quality accounts.