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A new record: I’m now following -2 people on Twitter.
Ever since I unfollowed everyone – why? For my peace of mind… see https://ar.al/2021/05/10/hell-site/ –Twitter’s lost the plot. Today it showed me following two people. When I clicked through, it was four. Unfollowed them and…
(If they’re messing this up, what else are they messing up while filtering and moderating your reality and analysing and categorising you?)
@aral oh wow! It keeps going! I thought it was an UI bug one time but this seems more 
Birdsite is breaking down 
@stux Yeah. Very odd. Documenting them; will write a post about it soon.
@aral Nice! Keep is informed, I’m interested in what happens
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@aral So I understand how Twitter has to use front-end caches for message distribution, because a SQL join on followers would destroy their servers. But I would've expected profiles would be database truth. But no, it's doing something like sending a delta to all the front-ends and they show an estimate. If you observed it from another part of the world I bet it'd have a different wrong number.
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