[pumaontheprowl]

Twitter's engineering team is just completely incompetent. More than 50% of tweets I'm linked to fail to load on the first attempt, and many times I have to reload the page two or three times before the tweet actually loads. It doesn't surprise me at all that their tweet classifier is mostly broken as well.

It really goes to show just how powerful network effects are in social media. Any company in any other industry that was this bad at their core competency would be overrun by competition in years. Yet Twitter has been completely incapable of doing basic things for over a decade now and they're still one of the dominant social media platforms solely because it's next to impossible to build a critical mass of users on a competing platform.

[majewsky]

> More than 50% of tweets I'm linked to fail to load on the first attempt, and many times I have to reload the page two or three times before the tweet actually loads.

I observe the same thing. My pet theory is that this is supposed to nudge people into using the app.