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by halisaurus 4421 days ago
Yes I think that was mentioned in the copy. It's also not really "random." It's one of the last 20 tweets globally. You probably won't ever see a tweet older than a few minutes.
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It's actually because Twitter rate limits the oembed endpoint by IP, so the app caches the oembed codes and uses those if it gets limited. I've been meaning to flip that bit to the client but haven't gotten around to it yet.