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> At the very least per tweet it’s possible to see really view patterns, which to my knowledge what’s possible before.

Those numbers have been proven to be incorrect, by people who are posting from locked accounts with 0 followers racking up large nonzero view counts within a few minutes.

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Some part of my brain immediately replied to this with the theory "what if those view counts are real and Twitter's just kind of ignoring whether an account is locked now" and damn that is a hell of a possibility to ponder.

There's another plausible theory that the just implemented it by counting database reads. So of course a locked test account will have more reads every time you look.

> There's another plausible theory that the just implemented it by counting database reads. So of course a locked test account will have more reads every time you look.

It'll have one, maybe two more reads every time you look. Not dozens. One person posted an example that had literally over a hundred alleged "views" within a minute, despite not refreshing their timeline after posting the tweet.

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Many users have reported weird view counts on locked accounts with few or zero followers: https://twitter.com/search?q=Locked%20followers%20views&src=...

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