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That's a twitter bug/feature that requires one or more browsers refreshes to find and show a tweet.

This seems to happen a lot. Not the first time I've seen this crop up in an HN thread.

Thanks, not one I'd encountered.

Probably happened at least 20 times to me... the first time was probably a year ago...

I’ve always wondered why it happens. Best guess is they have a short timeout like 1s to retrieve that content.