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I have a similar problem on my firefox-on-android: when I load a mobile.twitter link, it usually pinwheels for a bit, then throws up an error - either "you're rate limited" or just "something went wrong" (or, occasionally, it just pinwheels forever); then, regardless of which way it failed, loading the page a second time almost always works - but only if I do a proper reload from the browser UI, the in-page "try again" button doesn't help.

I figure something's timing out on the first attempt, but various bits get downloaded & cached before it fails, meaning the second try runs fast enough to not hit the same timeout.




It's a referer header issue. Caused by the mitigation in https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...




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