Happens to me too all the time on mobile and boy is it infuriating. I either get the "something went wrong" or the "you're being rate-limited," neither of which make any sense for someone opening tweets every now and then inside other apps.
I assume it's because when you open tweets with in-app browsers etc. Twitter wants to make it a poor experience in order to get you to use their app instead. Same reason they have been gutting their API features and limiting API tokens for 3rd party apps for years now.
Happens to me every time. I think it is intentionally done if you are not logged in to discourage you from using Twitter.
Re:Building the New Twitter.com
by nosuchuser2 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @01:52PM
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This happens to me as well, but only on mobile. Maybe the result of some rate-limiting, combined with not being able to distinguish different mobile users on the same network? I also use ublock origin with Firefox mobile, fwiw.
Often when it happens refresh isn't even enough, I have to do a duplicate tab operation. I had that issue on mobile for a long time, now I have it on desktop too. O boy.
Re:Building the New Twitter.com
by tomduncalf on Thursday July 18, 2019 @04:06PM
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Happens to me a lot on desktop, especially when following an external link to a tweet. Like you say, refreshing the page fixes it. Also seen it on mobile from time to time. Expected they’d fix this before a wider rollout, it’s pretty common for me!
Is this only happening to me? I always wondered what the hell is going on.