Yup just tried it again. Also basically anything counts as a view, scroll by the post, embedded tweet, scraper scraping the tweet. Almost every time the page is viewed by anyone or anything will bump the number even if it's repeated visit from the same viewer withing short time frame.

I guess it's kinda nice that it's simply transparent like that for admins but that's not what users expect - it's a useless metric and very easy to inflate.

I'm tempted to fire up a dozen android emulators with a refresh loop to see how far this can be pushed but I really don't want to have that shit platform on my mind longer than I have to tbh.