Some other interesting things I've noticed is counters are often wrong, sometimes even with insane values such as -1. Replies missing from retweet views, missing search results, people have reported that replies sometimes don't work or never appear.
Re: the counter issue; I've had "2" tweets for at least 5 years. I really have 0 tweets, but they mention if you ever delete tweets in bulk, the counter can be off.
I never really saw how making the counters random helped fight bots.
Anyone who wants to know if their bot armies upvotes are counted can just choose 2000 articles, upvote a random half, then see if the half they upvoted have higher vote tallies than the half they didn't.
No amount of delay, quantizing, or adding noise will defeat that tactic. So why try at all?
andy_ppp|3 years ago
Isn't it $1bn in interest payments Twitter owes, on what regularity is that paid, every 3 months?
rchaud|3 years ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-30/twitter-s...
hn92726819|3 years ago
They confirm this can happen on their site: https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/missing-tweets
Makes you wonder if anything security related has glitches like this.
ge96|3 years ago
I heard about "optimistic rendering"
-1 does seem bad. Reddit has fluctuating numbers I thought it was to fight bots or maybe using the eventually correct type db.
pifm_guy|3 years ago
Anyone who wants to know if their bot armies upvotes are counted can just choose 2000 articles, upvote a random half, then see if the half they upvoted have higher vote tallies than the half they didn't.
No amount of delay, quantizing, or adding noise will defeat that tactic. So why try at all?
JustLurking2022|3 years ago
908B64B197|3 years ago