If youโve ever scrolled through your X timeline and thought, โWaitโฆ didnโt I just see this post?โ โ youโre not crazy. For years, users have been dealing with an annoying glitch that made posts show up more than once. Now, Nikita Bier, Xโs Head of Product, says the bug has finally been squashed.
โAfter many years, we finally fixed a bug on Android where you would see the same post multiple times. Thank you for your attention to this matter,โ Nikita posted yesterday. A simple message, but for Android users, itโs huge.
But hereโs where it gets interesting: last month, we reported on another glitch where replies themselves were duplicating (yes, whole conversations echoing back at you). Now, the big question is does Nikitaโs fix also cover this replies issue?
Here’s a screenshot showing duplicate replies on X for Android app.
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I want to believe it does. After all, users have been lumping both bugs into the same โduplicate contentโ headache. Personally, Iโve mostly dealt with the duplicate replies side of things, and as of this week, I still catch it now and then. Maybe the fix is rolling out gradually, much like the earlier auto-refresh bugfix that hit iOS users in phases.
And speaking of Android, Nikita has also teased that more quality-of-life improvements are coming our way. No dates yet, but X isnโt just patching up bugs. The company is rebuilding the entire Android app from the ground up. A whole new team is being hired to work on this massive overhaul.
So, if youโre still spotting duplicate replies or havenโt noticed a change yet, donโt panic. A smoother, cleaner, less buggy X experience is (hopefully) on the horizon.
