Twitter users call out bugs and broken features on the platform

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  • January 13, 2023
Technology

It seems Twitter is full of bugs, and the exterminator won’t be stopping by any time soon. The writing was on the wall. After massive rolling layoffs in November and December, Twitter’s staff is dwindling. The company closed its Seattle office late last year, but not before things got so bad that employees started bringing their own toilet paper to work. Earlier this week, Twitter employees were evicted from their Singapore office due to unpaid rent.

The absence of those workers is now felt while using the site: features are visibly on the fritz, repeatedly glitching and bugging out. Users are making note of the issues, but Twitter doesn’t seem to be paying attention. Instead of fixing them, they’ve been messing with features like image display and view counts — things that don’t need changing in the first place. The lights at Twitter may be on, but is anyone actually home?

Here’s a rundown of what users say need fixing right now:

A video stops playing midway through, but its audio keeps playing, or the clip restarts

A video’s sound continues to play even after you’ve scrolled past it, or have left Twitter and opened another app

Videos automatically mute when you like them

Making edits to a tweet with a video turns that video into an image

Edited tweets appear at the top of the home feed, sometimes multiple times

Replies don’t show up in notifications

Both following and unfollowing an account increases its follower count.

Tweets of users you have blocked can still be seen for a split second when first opened, and so can tweets that were deleted quickly after being posted.

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