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		dumbfounder on Dec 1, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I Made a Self-Quoting Tweet Nice. But you didn't guess someone's tweet id, the name in the url is actually not used, these three links actually all point you to the same place because they have the same tweet id: https://twitter.com/quinetweet/status/1309684114073808896 https://twitter.com/gzhdigital/status/1309684114073808896 https://twitter.com/donkeytron200000/status/1309684114073808...

nacs on Dec 1, 2020 [–]

The author is aware of this and has a whole section in the blog post about it..

dumbfounder on Dec 1, 2020 | [–]

My bad! I missed the one sentence where he says that. And I even read it twice... need more caffeine.

nacs on Dec 1, 2020 | | [–]

There’s 3 paragraphs about it :) (the whole section with the “Shit gets weird” heading is about how only tweet IDs matter).

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