Getting odd likes on your tweets? Twitter says it's a bug

Some Twitter accounts have been affected with a strange bug that resulted in tweets on their feed, claiming people they follow liked those tweets while in reality, a scan of their profile did not list those liked tweets.

Some of these algorithmically-inserted tweets had been quoted in posts that those claimed friends had actually liked or liked tweet replies, indicating a problem with the service, Engadget reported. If you intend to rid yourself of the strange chronological timeline, you can use a search filter available on realtwitter.com that will help remove all retweets, replies, media, links, and people you don't follow. 

Recently, Twitter's CEO says the company isn't biased against Republicans or Democrats and is working on ways to ensure that debate is healthier on its platform. In prepared testimony released before a House hearing Wednesday, Jack Dorsey says he wants to be clear about one thing: "Twitter does not use political ideology to make any decisions, whether related to ranking content on our service or how we enforce our rules." The testimony comes as some Republicans say conservatives have been censored on social media.

Dorsey offered an explanation of how San Francisco-based Twitter uses "behavioral signals," such as the way accounts interact and behave on the service. Those signals can help weed out spam and abuse. He says such behavioral analysis "does not consider in any way political views or ideology."  

With inputs from ANI