[trafficante]

I can’t speak on Tumblr, but the issue is even worse than “unbearably slow” on Twitter.

Once I’m down about 50ish posts on my feed, hitting back from a post to get back to the feed seems to have around a 25% chance to quickly throw a “Safari has detected a problem” error and force a refresh - sending me back to the top of the feed. And this is on an iPhone 12 Pro Max so it’s not like the hardware is out of date.

I primarily blame Safari, but on some level I think Twitter is aware of the problem and has no intentions of fixing it. The mobile Twitter site is purposely designed to make it nearly impossible to open a tweet in a background tab if it doesn’t have an image (the browser tries to select text on a long press). That’s clearly something Twitter could fix if they wanted to.

[lolinder]

Twitter's mobile problem isn't specific to Safari. The initial load of any tweet on my Android Firefox is ~20 seconds. Every subsequent action takes at least a full second. Couple that with the huge "it's better on the app" banners you get every time you try to do anything, and it's obvious that Twitter is intentionally neglecting mobile web.

(I've got an oldish phone, but it performs fine on every website I ever visit except Twitter.)

[dbtc]

I think all the 'social media' platforms really want you to install their software onto your device anyway. I suspect they could make it work in the browser if that made sense for their business, but they would rather be on your home screen.

[ccouzens]

Long press the timestamp to open a tweet in a new tab. This is a UI convention shared with Facebook and hacker news.

Tested in Android Firefox on https://mobile.twitter.com/home.

[trafficante]

Can confirm this also works on Safari. Thanks for the tip!