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How to Turn Off the Auto-Scrolling on Twitter
You may have heard about the auto-refreshing Twitter timeline and would like to disable it. You can disable the feature by un-checking the box in the settings menu or by changing the cache level of the site. In the event you have no option to do it, you can use the Twitter APIs to disable auto-refreshing. Here are some tips to solve this problem:
Unchecking the checkbox to disable the auto-scrolling feature
If you are one of the many people who find that the Twitter feed keeps refreshing before you finish reading it, you may want to learn how to turn off the auto-scrolling feature. This feature is automatically enabled on Twitter mobile and desktop and will scroll your feed all the way up each time there is new content. Here’s how. To disable the auto-scrolling feature, open your Twitter account and tap on the profile icon or avatar in the top left corner of the screen. See the article : How Chinese Government Uses Private Businesses to Track Critics. Then, click More in the left pane and select Settings. Then, click on Privacy and Availability. Scroll down until you see Reduce motion.
You can also use this feature to block live engagement stats, which will update on your screen whenever someone actively retweets your tweet. However, if you want to turn off live engagement stats, you should first disable the auto-scrolling feature on Twitter. Then, you can go back to reading your tweets. If you’re on a computer or Mac, you can turn off the live engagement stats.
Unchecking the checkbox to disable the auto-refreshing feature
While the auto-refresh feature on Twitter is useful, some people find it intrusive. The auto-refresh feature often zooms back to the top of the timeline when the user is in the middle of a tweet, preventing the user from following the thread they were talking about. Read also : How Can I Delete My Twitter Account?. You can disable this feature by unchecking the box labeled ‘Reduce Motion’.
Using this feature is especially useful when you’re live-tweeting. It’s frustrating when your screen zooms back up to the top of the page while you’re reading a tweet. Fortunately, Twitter is testing out new features, including a new Timeline look. This new Timeline look is reminiscent of Facebook‘s news feed. If you’re one of the millions of Twitter users who don’t want to scroll back up every so often, unchecking this checkbox is the best way to turn off auto-refreshing on your feed.
Setting the caching level to a lower value
In most applications, there are certain parts of the data that are frequently queried but rarely changed. For example, you may regularly post new content on an online forum, but many threads remain unchanged for months or even years. As a result, your application receives hundreds of requests for the same data over again. See the article : Is Twitter Still Limited to 140 Characters?. These spots are good candidates for caching. By setting the caching level to a lower value, you’ll avoid wasting precious resources on data that is never updated.
However, there is a potential risk that the cache might be causing the problem. This has happened to other sites as well. During the recent Twitter outage, a load spike led to 39 cache shard hosts to OOM. The problem was that the cluster manager didn’t automatically remove dead nodes. Eventually, the cluster manager will remove dead nodes if too many fail, but this can lead to spikes in traffic to persistent storage.
Using Twitter APIs to disable auto-refreshing
Using Twitter APIs to disable auto-freshing is possible when you want to show Tweets from specific users, but not from all of them. The limit for auto-refreshing a Tweet is seven days, and you can use the Twitter search API to get an archive of tweets. You can use the oEmbed endpoint to embed a Tweet. The returned HTML snippet is automatically recognized as an Embedded Tweet. Using Twitter’s JavaScript, you can also customize the final appearance of an Embed Tweet.
To use the Ads API, you must specify the category of the media. If you need to display a video or a GIF, you should use the media_id parameter. It is important to set the possibly_sensitive parameter to true. Otherwise, you will get a message that doesn’t display. This is a problem because Twitter’s auto-refreshing feature can break your page’s user experience.
