This is very weird. My like count is flipping back and forth in real time on my pinned post. Weird bug or "advanced content moderation"?pic.twitter.com/gdaQzxioBU
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This is very weird. My like count is flipping back and forth in real time on my pinned post. Weird bug or "advanced content moderation"?pic.twitter.com/gdaQzxioBU
there's not ONE twitter server there are thousands or hundreds of thousands in data centers, and the database updates trickle out at an uneven rate
It is interesting that the count goes back and forth, so it seems to update to a lower count as well as to a higher one.
Counting is actually hard and your shouldn't trust any number on any large distributed website. Even if it's consistent, it's probably approximate.
Yeah, it happens even to lowbies like me. Like I’ll get alerts that “X and 8 others liked your tweet” and I’ll click on it and it shows 13 likes and then I click on the 13 likes link and it shows me 10 ppl who have liked it There is something weird w how Twitter counts up likes
Also evidence: I will like a tweet and then it comes up a few days later and it doesn’t show up that I liked it. I feel like it didn’t “forget” my like as much as it just kind of aggregated it into a count instead of keeping track of individual likes. Although it obviously
Does still keep track of them, but maybe doing so in real time when just displaying a tweet would be too computationally expensive or something. In sum: There’s a lot of weirdness, but I feel it’s related to how hard it would be to program it to work perfectly.
Tbh it’s actually impressive how well tweets themselves are propagated. I see tweets come up within seconds usually. Clearly the tweet data is first-class in the system while the metadata is a lower priority. Amazing how well it works w literally millions of ppl on simultaneously
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