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as someone who has never used twitter, it always confuses me that twitter sometimes puts the reply before the message that’s being replied to. why do it this way?
It isn't so much as a reply on a re-tweet, if you comment or "reply" to any tweet then the layout is the same as any other social media site and nests it under the post. Whereas for re-tweeting it is more like sharing something, like a link or an article, and your desired message into a post, just like here in lemmy your title or message is at the top and your content is under it. In this context the tweet is your content.
I hope that made sense
this does make sense. thank you for explaining it. i had always thought that retweet was the twitter word for reply (a reply that is also a tweet), but this makes way more sense.
If you're following someone but not the person they're replying to, this is how it shows up because the design assumes you're more interested in what the person you're following has to say, and just includes the original for context
disclaimer: I don't really use the website so I could be slightly off. It probably doesn't require you only be following one of the two users, moreso that reply tweets (sorry, reply Xs on X) from people you follow show like "normal" top level posts in your feed