If you’ve been using the X app on Android lately, you might have noticed something odd when replying to posts: the app seems to think you’re twice as eager to share your thoughts. Literally.
I’ve run into this bug more times than I care to count. You reply to a post, hit send, and boom — there are two identical replies stacked one after the other. It’s as if the app is saying, “Yeah, let’s make sure they really got your point.”
Now, this isn’t entirely new. In the past, the phantom duplicate would appear for a few seconds and then vanish as quietly as it came. But lately, that second reply is sticking around, hanging awkwardly under the original like an uninvited twin. Sure, it eventually goes away, but it stays far much longer than before. Here’s a screenshot I took today for showing the second reply still stuck 10 minutes later for reference:
I’m not alone either. A couple of other users have reached out to me saying they’ve noticed the same thing, and there are even posts on X from people scratching their heads over it. That said, it doesn’t seem to be affecting everyone, otherwise, the platform would be flooded with rants and memes about it.
Interestingly, this bug seems to be an Android-exclusive problem. It doesn’t happen on the web version, and iOS users are (for now) blissfully unaffected.
And maybe this is one of the reasons X is putting together a “dream team” to rebuild the Android app from scratch. With all the weird quirks, glitches, and usability hiccups popping up lately, a ground-up overhaul might be the only way to fix it all.
In the meantime, if you see me replying twice to your post, no, I’m not being overenthusiastic. It’s just X on Android being… well, X on Android.
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