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This very Twitter link invisibly starts half way down the page. Took me several seconds to realise you have to scroll up to get to the start.

Another bad one is Mac's "Do not disturb" option. Good luck finding that.

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On desktop at least, there is a very subtle vertical line coming out of the top of the avatar image of the linked tweet. When you start to scroll up, you'll see that this line is part of the "thread" indicator that links all the posts above it. On my screen, it's about the same as the "x-height" (lower-case letter size) of the username font, at the thickness of the UI grid lines.

It would of course be much better to have the previous tweet partially on-screen, possibly under a small gradient.

Technically that's not twitter's fault. The OP link points to the fourth tweet in the thread, so twitter loads the page with that tweet centered.

This is the actual start of the thread: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1369705219110498304

It's still Twitter's fault - there should be some indication that it isn't the start of the thread. Normally you'd do it with a scroll bar, but they are forbidden these days apparently.

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