HACKER Q&A
📣 rpgbr

Is Twitter/X showing old posts in profiles for not logged users?


I thought this was an issue in my Nitter instance, but even on `twitter.com` itself it shows old posts (~2020) when not logged. If I log in, it shows correctly.

Did Elon break Twitter again?


  👤 3cats-in-a-coat Accepted Answer ✓
Elon broke Twitter, but intentionally. He is afraid AI will scrape his precious tweets. So when not logged in, the timeline is just a random mix of "top tweets" now.

👤 Am4TIfIsER0ppos
Try another instance. Some I've used show the new posts and some don't. Possibly that is because the ones that do use credentials so get the "logged in" view. If they do I wish they'd show the age restricted posts.

👤 numpad0
Apparently they sort by "best" a la Reddit for a while, despite it being not how pubic IRC website works

👤 natdempk
Yeah this has been an issue for a while now, I see the same thing.

👤 rozenmd
it shows your most popular tweets

👤 fullshark
Yes, at least for me.