Fix possible duplicate statuses in timelines in some edge cases #17971
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In some rare cases, when receiving statuses out of order from the streaming API then polling from the REST API, it was possible for the
expandNormalizedTimeline
function to insert duplicates in the timeline, which would then result in several bugs.This commits ensures that there are no duplicates inserted in the timeline.