Twitter special treatment

Twitter's mobile site seems to be awful. Most of the time when opening reddit links to twitter, the first page load fails with a "You are not authorised to view these tweets" or "Twitter took too long to respond". Refreshes sometimes fix the issue. I've managed to reproduce this on a desktop by hitting mobile.twitter.com with the User-Agent and X-Requested-With headers set to the same as RedReader. Looking at the network console, the https://api.twitter.com/2/timeline/conversation/$id.json call literally just hangs.

This is undoubtedly a Twitter issue and - if I were to put my tin-foil hat on - is perhaps deliberate to encourage people to use the app rather than the mobile site.

It would be nice if RedReader could work around this by:

• Allowing users to enable desktop UA spoofing and suppressing the X-Requested-With header for Twitter to make the page loads as reliable as they are in a desktop browser

Reproduce the failure when opening Reddit links to Twitter with the RedReader User-Agent and X-Requested-With headers, then compare it with a desktop browser request. Investigate the Twitter link-loading path and determine whether desktop UA spoofing and suppressing X-Requested-With improve reliability. Done means the workaround is user-configurable and the reported Twitter page-load failures are reduced.