X.com silently deletes new likes likes on old posts

twitter.com

11 points·Otter-man··9 comments

As far as I know, Twitter has always done this since the "Likes" were introduced. I don't think they're recorded in a permanent manner on who liked what, just the total number of likes per post as a counter.

how would they show me my like history if not storing it?

Surprisingly it does show these posts on your "Likes" page in your profile. But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

> But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency

In addition to "optimistic UI". https://imhoff.blog/posts/optimistic-ui-primer

The UI optimistically allows the user to tap/click the like button and the eventually-consistent backend determines if the like is valid. The UI doesn't verify if the user is allowed to like because that's the backend's job.

Tom Scott has a video on it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA

this explains so much, thank you!

x.com doesn't even seem to really work anymore, i'm surprised they haven't lost all their users yet.

No, it works just fine? And this particular problem i think is date pre-elon because people were complaining about disappearing likes for a few years.

Maybe through the app, but I get sent links to x things all the time and they just straight up don't load. Same thing with links to old x threads linked from different websites.

plenty of users purge their own likes

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