As far as I know, Twitter has always done this since the "Likes" were introduced. I don't think they're recorded in a permanent manner on who liked what, just the total number of likes per post as a counter.
Surprisingly it does show these posts on your "Likes" page in your profile. But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.
The UI optimistically allows the user to tap/click the like button and the eventually-consistent backend determines if the like is valid. The UI doesn't verify if the user is allowed to like because that's the backend's job.
As far as I know, Twitter has always done this since the "Likes" were introduced. I don't think they're recorded in a permanent manner on who liked what, just the total number of likes per post as a counter.
how would they show me my like history if not storing it?
Surprisingly it does show these posts on your "Likes" page in your profile. But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.
> But they aren't marked as liked, and liking one will increase the like indicator.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eventual_consistency
In addition to "optimistic UI". https://imhoff.blog/posts/optimistic-ui-primer
The UI optimistically allows the user to tap/click the like button and the eventually-consistent backend determines if the like is valid. The UI doesn't verify if the user is allowed to like because that's the backend's job.
Tom Scott has a video on it. https://youtube.com/watch?v=RY_2gElt3SA
this explains so much, thank you!
x.com doesn't even seem to really work anymore, i'm surprised they haven't lost all their users yet.
No, it works just fine? And this particular problem i think is date pre-elon because people were complaining about disappearing likes for a few years.
plenty of users purge their own likes