Is it part of a desirable "algorithm" that on Twitter every time you refresh the page you get a different ordering of posts such that you can never find again a post that you just saw?


No


No, it should be a separate button


Of course it is. Very small price to pay in exchange for the feeling that there’s something new you’re missing.


Noh, that sucks.


Since all the major platforms do this it must be by design.  Probably to make sure you constantly get new content to steal your attention, but also to make you pull your hair out trying to find a post you just fucking saw.


I don’t know.  If I don’t have time to review a hot post I don’t have time for I screen shot it, and come back to it.

I suppose the algorithm just tried to give you new feed to look at, in lieu of the same content again.


Intermittent reward systems are very addictive. Refresh and you always get something new, sometimes shit, sometimes not.

The whole product is designed for mental illness.


There is something nice about a RE-FRESH giving you new FRESH content.


Just that you see more of like content that you interact with.

If you like a pist from someone, perhaps you see more post that person themselves likes.


God I hate that crap


📎 Clippy: Looks like you wanted “fresh” posts. Here’s some you haven’t seen before which are less relevant than the ones we picked for you initially. We know you very well (more than you or we could possibly admit) so we know you’ll engage with these too!


This is one of my favorite things about a strictly chronological feed. It's easy to find that post that I only half saw.


This is why I have no problem with clients having an algorithm determined "trending" section.  But I like the default view to just show notes from npubs I follow in chronological order.


The best part is when you get a split-second glimpse of something you want to read, and then immediately disappears into the void forever.


it's changed to Xing  we can reclaim tweeting here.


Onward 🫡


Twitter was never ever known for its tech .. Facebook clients didn't even refresh properly for at least ten years of its launch .. And their html5 based apps were the worst possible engineering  ..


Point being - don't think it is by design  ... it is just no one knows what is going on there  .. there is no passion of purpose  in building corporate social media  ..


It’s like walking on a street full of people. You walk passed something interesting and when you look back again, people are not all in the same position.


That's a good idea but sometimes you didn't realize you wanted to find it again and no screenshot


I used to think chronological only was the only option that wasn't "bad" but more and more I'm realizing I'd really enjoy not missing posts from people who post infrequently, or something big happened but I missed it because of later posts pushing it beyond scrolling.


it makes you scroll more. that's what the algorithm desires


Good to have both.


True.  But X doesn’t know.. it tries to give you slightly different feed so you have more choices.


Totally agree, and with hundreds of millions of posts, it's not going to know what particular one you wanted to revisit. However I would like to plug in an algorithm of my choosing and I would have my client remember every post it has ever showed me, like a "seen posts" list.


Also when I'm scrolling twitter I notice some tweets are shown for a second and then they disappears a bunch of posts down, tickling the curiosity of  ' what did I just see and where is it..' , making you need to scroll more to see it and in the meantime the possibility of getting your attention caught  by the other tweets along the way keeping me/you/we scrolling into the late hours....  🤨


Is it part of a desirable "algorithm" that on Twitter every time you refresh the page you get a different ordering of posts such that you can never find again a post that you just saw?


Yes. I hate seeing stuff twice.