Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline
TechCrunch Industry News · TechCrunch
February 6, 20192m 44s
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A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared. Instead, the company confirmed that a bug affecting Android users was mislabeling the “social proof” tag on Retweets.
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