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# Does No One at Apple Use Twitter?
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/does-no-one-at-apple-use-twitter/
- Published: 2016-01-23T04:07:55.000Z
- Updated: 2016-01-23T04:07:55.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

Anyone who uses Safari on their Mac surely knows about the maddening bug where Twitter links **just don't freaking load.** I swear to god, it has to have been an error for over a year, and it drives me mad on a daily basis.

I shared [this tip](https://birchtree.me/blog/tweetbot-fix/) last week to get Tweetbot to open links in a way that doesn't hang up Safari, but life is full of Twitter links and that's band-aid on the problem. Thankfully, WebKit developer Timothy Hatcher confirmed that the issue is going to be fixed soon-ish.

> [@calebd](https://twitter.com/calebd?ref=birchtree.me) [@siracusa](https://twitter.com/siracusa?ref=birchtree.me) [@siegel](https://twitter.com/siegel?ref=birchtree.me) We have a Radar and a fix identified. It is lower level than WebKit.
> 
> — Timothy Hatcher (@xeenon) [January 15, 2016](https://twitter.com/xeenon/status/687836984992247808?ref=birchtree.me)

It just raises the question, how many people at Apple use Twitter? It baffles me that the [#10 most visited website](http://www.alexa.com/topsites?ref=birchtree.me) in the world is basically broken on their supposedly world-class browser. Did Tim Cook never scream down the hall, "why the hell won't this damn GIF load?!"