Mikey Campbell
It was reported on Thursday that @mentions have not been showing up on both Twitter's official app for iOS, and more specifically for iPhone, and third party apps like Tweetbot.
The apparent bug in Twitter's service, first discovered by Favstar.fm, appears to be have affected how mentions are displayed, with some notifications being replaced by older retweets or not showing up at all.
Initial reports claimed the glitch was limited to Twitter's official iPhone app, however it seems the issue can be replicated in third party software as well.
Initial reports saw the glitch only in Twitter's official app.
From Favstar's blog post:
It turns out @Twitter for iPhone will sometimes not show a mention on their Connect -> Mentions tab. This seems to happen when an older mention has been retweeted by another user, which takes the place of the mention that should be there.
While the mentions are not being displayed correctly on iOS versions pulling from Twitter servers, the micro blogging company's web client has not been affected, possibly pointing to a bug in the service's API.
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OMG
Twittergate!!!!!
They should get rid of the whole "@" thing completely. Too many idiots use Twitter like a chat service to begin with. Some people's entire stream consists of "@'s"
[quote name="Gazoobee" url="/t/152945/twitter-for-ios-not-displaying-mentions-for-some#post_2200091"]They should get rid of the whole "@" thing completely. Too many idiots use Twitter like a chat service to begin with. Some people's entire stream consists of "@'s" [/quote] I have no issue with that. My issues with mentions are when they don't track so you cant see the convo together and that no app seems to have it set up so when you 'read' a mention in your timeline it takes that unread number off your mentions.
[quote name="jragosta" url="/t/152945/twitter-for-ios-not-displaying-mentions-for-some#post_2200089"]Twittergate!!!!![/quote] Don't make me slap you.