When Twitter “twitter.com/i/timeline” fails (often, intermittently, usually for a few days, sometimes weeks)
Posted by jpluimers on 2022/03/21
Quite often, but at unpredictable intervals and durations, twitter.com/i/timeline fails.
I finally got the right search terms for this, so via [Wayback] twitter search your timeline – Google Search I found [Wayback] How to search your Twitter timeline | iMore.
The alternative:
- shows most of the tweets from the timeline
- does not show notifications (so you have to refresh every now and then)
Their trick is to filter your tweets on filter:follows filter:nativeretweets, then order by latest (the f=live bit below).
Direct web-link: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live
For me, this filter seems to work better: filter:follows -filter:replies -filter:nativeretweets as it allows me to easily include or exclude retweets.
Direct URL: twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Areplies%20-filter%3Anativeretweets&src=typed_query&f=live
I bolded a few bits above for readability; below you can see how the URI is formed from the filter parts:
| filter part | URI part | notes |
|---|---|---|
twitter.com/search?q= |
base of URI | |
filter:follows |
filter%3Afollows |
show tweets of people you follow |
%20 |
encoded space | |
filter:nativeretweets |
filter%3Anativeretweets |
only show new-style retweets |
& |
URI parameter separator | |
src=typed_query |
tells Twitter this is a “filter” | |
f=live |
the “filter” is “Latest” tweets (without this, it is “Top” tweets) | |
-filter:replies |
-filter%3Areplies |
do not show replies (those are in your regular “notifications” already) |
-filter:nativeretweets |
-filter%3Anativeretweets |
do not show new-style retweets |
–jeroen
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