This is not a trivial issue. If smart auto-completion fails, most people won't bother to check handles twice. It certainly complicates newsgathering/curation, and will exacerbate misinformation.
No other way to put this: Twitter’s auto-completion suddenly became stupid sometime last month. This always used to work before, returning reasonable results topside. Now I have to double-check every single handle I include in tweets.pic.twitter.com/nDTfQciflQ
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(I'm getting the exact same results for this example on PC & iOS, btw, so it's not an app-specific issue.)
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