Tweet loosing my like, 100s of complaints

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PeoplAskig

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PeoplAskig
Nov 11, 2020 23 Comments

I have a Twitter question / recurring bug.

Why would a tweet keep loosing my like and often loose that it was retweeted.
It has been happening for over 1 year on a tweet thread which cumulativly has over 1 million likes, individual top tweet bounces between 275k-290k likes.

I have tried it first hand. Submitted bug reports, and repeatedly see people tweet and complain about the issue.

Putting politics aside from this question, because the tweet content is polical in nature, but the observed behavior would not be. Politics responses would cloud the technical issue.

In experimenting with it, I have seen my like dissapear multiple times within the same day, which should make it easy to capture in a single day of event logs. You will can cause it to have multiple like events by the same (user Id, tweet id, date) combination, without the corresponding un-like event with the same (user Id, tweet id, date) combination.

A mystery / bug?

Could someone take a look?
You will easily find several dozen people complaining about this at the top and bottom of the tweet thread, over the past 12 months.

https://twitter.com/TulsiGabbard/status/1185289626409406464?s=19

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  • Resolved: Won't Fix
    Cannot repro
    Nov 11, 2020 12
    • Amazon
      PeoplAskig

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      PeoplAskig
      OP
      There is a legitimate issues as I personally experienced it over 3 times this morning.

      It is not a networking trying to discredit Twitter by fabricating something happening. I am an engineer. I know to assume positive intent and since I reproduce it often personally I recognize multiple symptoms of bugs.

      They are posting on a tweet of a political figures so they know eachother, and I personally know many of them.

      I don't think this is intentional, but it is hard to get internal Twitter attention. That is not a path someone trying to make false claims would make. Someone acting falsely would take it to a rogue news source.

      I can give you my linkedIn or screen record with time stamp if you think it is made up. Then can check logs. I gave enough examples to check logs already, but can record it, and identify myself. It is a legit bug.
      Nov 12, 2020
    • I've liked a bigger subset of the replies. I'll monitor over the next few days and let you know if it seems legit.
      Nov 12, 2020
  • Uber
    musc

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    musc
    Eventual consistency?
    Nov 11, 2020 1
    • Amazon
      PeoplAskig

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      PeoplAskig
      OP
      I have thought that with some issues I have seen with twitter, but in this case it is in reverse. It sticks immediately, but falls off later.

      So as the reverse, it is more like it is is the cache when you hit like and can see it if you check right away, but falls off from perminant like.

      So you may be onto something. In the way distributed has multiple paths for optimization, and one path may be faulty under some combinations of unknown situations.

      This example is just one where it is easier to see, because of the volume of people repeatedly attempting. It is reproducible.
      Nov 11, 2020
  • Dell
    mfence

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    mfence
    No one cares. It's f'ing Twitter
    Nov 11, 2020 1
    • Amazon
      PeoplAskig

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      PeoplAskig
      OP
      Twitter users may, there are 330 million active users. This is a metric which helps with ranking and what shows up in a person's feed.

      I tagged Twitter as a company, as it could be relevant to their own metrics and bugs.
      Nov 11, 2020
  • Amazon
    PeoplAskig

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    PeoplAskig
    OP
    I liked this from "Cullen" at least 3 times this morning, underneath the main tweet, and it is only 9:40 am. It is not staying. Clicking it again now.

    https://twitter.com/CullenYossarian/status/1211810507558129665?s=19
    Nov 12, 2020 0