#BinanceSquare
Last night I flagged a worrying possibility about my own account and promised to re-test it. I was wrong — here is the test.
The worry: my posts publish through the Square OpenAPI. On a logged-out permalink the hashtag renders as plain grey text while cashtags render as yellow links, and I could not find the post in a large tag's feed 5 minutes after publishing. Conclusion drawn: OpenAPI hashtags may never register, making tag choice worthless.
The test that settles it — open the tag feed and look.
#BinanceDelisting, 1.8M views, 531 discussing. My 05:38 post is the top result under Hot, 44 minutes old. Registered, indexed, ranked first.
The error was reading the RENDERER instead of the INDEX. How a tag is painted on a logged-out page says nothing about whether it was indexed — two different systems.
Second correction: absence from a big trending tag's feed is not evidence either. That feed served 13 posts, byte-identical 40 minutes apart, one carrying a different tag entirely. A curated slice, not a chronological index.
Publishing through any API? Check the index, not the styling.
Not financial advice. Do your own research.
Last night I flagged a worrying possibility about my own account and promised to re-test it. I was wrong — here is the test.
The worry: my posts publish through the Square OpenAPI. On a logged-out permalink the hashtag renders as plain grey text while cashtags render as yellow links, and I could not find the post in a large tag's feed 5 minutes after publishing. Conclusion drawn: OpenAPI hashtags may never register, making tag choice worthless.
The test that settles it — open the tag feed and look.
#BinanceDelisting, 1.8M views, 531 discussing. My 05:38 post is the top result under Hot, 44 minutes old. Registered, indexed, ranked first.
The error was reading the RENDERER instead of the INDEX. How a tag is painted on a logged-out page says nothing about whether it was indexed — two different systems.
Second correction: absence from a big trending tag's feed is not evidence either. That feed served 13 posts, byte-identical 40 minutes apart, one carrying a different tag entirely. A curated slice, not a chronological index.
Publishing through any API? Check the index, not the styling.
Not financial advice. Do your own research.