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by some_random 1860 days ago
Some of the worst images and videos I've seen in my life have been from twitter, and not a single one was marked potentially offensive (and believe me I've seen some shit). Same with text, to a degree.

That said, I was pretty consistently able to identify the tweet that was going to be classified as offensive, 8/10. Honestly this was better than I expected as a normal twitter user.

Edit: I had to disable enhanced tracking protection in firefox to get this to work.

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You had to disable enhanced tracking to get the quiz to work? That's surprising to me. Were the tweets not loading in the quiz without it? I'm using Twitter's JS library to embed the tweets, the only thing I can imagine is that that somehow runs afoul of the tracking protection.

When I was creating the quiz I considered using images of the tweets instead of embedding the tweets directly. Possible I should have gone that route. It might have solved this problem and it would have removed a dependency on Twitter's API package. I chose not to do it because it felt inefficient to use images instead of the embedded tweet and I thought the user experience would be better.

Yup they just weren't loading otherwise.
How did you guess correctly when the two tweets were identical?