Replies sometimes appear before the parent in Twitter UIs

[wjt]

If someone posts a tweet T and fewerror replies with tweet U, sometimes the threading view in (at least) the web and Android clients show U as happening before T. I suspect this is because they are sorted by tweet ID, which is not necessarily chronological but is good enough for human replies to human tweets.

Perhaps fewerror should hold off a few seconds before replying.

[wjt]

This happened in the Android client today with https://twitter.com/resiak/status/659748364058275840 – the reply has a larger tweet ID so that is not the problem, but still a sleep(5) might do the trick…