Hmmm, what is going on here? I noticed this a couple of times in the recent past already. Very old twts appear in my client as unread. The pattern seems to be that there is always repeated text in square brackets and some of them contain equal signs. Is yarnd corrupting feeds somehow? I kind of doubt that people actually typed that themselves.
Last time, it was @bender@twtxt.net’s feed that showed me new weird twts in my client. I don’t remember the details, but I’m pretty sure it was this week. Refetching his feed a couple of times (across multiple days) and I got new messages.
And it just happened again, this time with @mckinley@twtxt.net’s feed. This twt from 2023-01-09T22:42:37Z here newly popped up, it contains magic bracketed text:
[…] I’ll bet we could find that information and put “[Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled][Scheduled]” in the title for premieres and remove it when the video is available.
Currently, its hash is puxvjcq. There is no sign of evidence that this twt existed ever before. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. But https://twtxt.net/twt/puxvjcq 404s and the search engine also just gives me “error loading twt from archive” (quite a generic error message): https://search.twtxt.net/twt/puxvjcq
Just open https://twtxt.net/user/mckinley/twtxt.txt and search for ][Scheduled or =][ to find even more. This also reveals some “[email protected][email protected]” stuff. Is that maybe coming from Clownflare?
In https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt it felt to me that the bracketed text from 2024-03-28T18:34:36Z always got duplicated each time it changed for whatever reason: “[162.159.205.11][162.159.205.11]” etc.
mckinley and bender, do you recall actually typing that out or somehow updating your feeds on yarnd? Or am I just doing something wrong here? But the fact, that my browser shows the same stuff, I’m pretty sure it’s not my client, that’s messing things up here.
Any idea, @prologic@twtxt.net?