miscommunication on twitter

Now this was a weird sequence of tweets

Josh feels that Jim is a sicko.  Jim thinks Josh almost tweeted a joke about the typhoon in the Philippines.

First, why does Jim think Josh almost tweeted this joke?

If you look at Josh's timeline, you will see these tweets

A)


and:
B)

Now, on Josh's real time line, the tweet about the typhoon does not appear to be right next to the tweets about the mysterious offensive remarks.

However, if you, like me, are using the twitter app for Android phones, you will probably have noted that many tweets just don't appear on that app.  If I really want to see all of  Josh's tweets, I have to look on my desktop computer.

And, if you just turn to Josh's timeline, and fail to click on "all" at the top you won't see reply tweets anyway, causing more tweets to disappear, making these seem closer together.

Therefore, it is entirely possible that if Jim is using an Android phone, like me, and failed to click "all" these tweets would have appeared to be immediately adjacent.  I think they did appear to be adjacent the first time I looked at them, myself.  Therefore Jim might have reasonably concluded that the purportedly unsent tweet was a tasteless joke about the typhoon.

So, Josh, if you're reading this, he might not be such a sicko as you assumed.

Of course, we don't know if there was an unsent tweet at all, because Josh might have made it up just to generate excitement for his readers.   Moreover, if there really was an unsent tweet, it might have been on some entirely different topic.

Now Jim, on the other hand, seems to have not understood why the joke was on him.  If you're reading this, Jim, I think Josh tricked you into following him, as he never had any intention of sending out any such joke.  Still, there are people who would give their right arm to have Josh tweet them so often and even send them a DM, so I hope you won't feel unduly wronged by this odd miscommunication.