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This landed in my twitter feed last week: https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/1076219616735780870

There's "frustrating", and then "are you fucking kidding me" with regards to cutesy copywriting.

Somewhat ironically, when loading that page Twitter asked me to reload because an error occurred, but wouldn’t tell me what the error was or if there was anything I could do to prevent it…

I get this error at an extremely high rate when using twitter web. I am convinced that they are fully aware of this “bug” but don’t fix it to push people to the mobile app; and even suspect that they might trigger that error on purpose to this end.

Reloading the actual page works for me, the twitter reload button doesnt

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