Disappearing Tweets!
Some of my tweets simply disappeared. I did a search, and a lot of people seem to be complaining about this right now.
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people have this problem
I have this problem, too!
Tell me when someone solves it.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
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Inappropriate?I'm having the same problem. If you search "disappearing tweets" on aTwittersearch, you'll see that a lot of people are going through the same thing.
I’m frustrated
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this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?I had sent out a tweet saying that some of my tweets disappeared. And that tweet has also disappeared.
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Inappropriate?This just seemed to be happening to me today... hacked or corrupt database?
I’m frustrated (or losing my mind!)
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Inappropriate?It started happening to me today, I guess, I've never noticed it before...
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Inappropriate?First noticed this problem about 10 hours ago, and still no mention of it on the twitter status blog.
Tweets keep disappearing, and sometimes I see differing numbers of tweets from different accounts. Several twitter friends have also mentioned the same problem (although sometimes their tweets about it disappear as well!).
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?I have had the same thing : just started today on my account as well as others? what is the deal? they need to fix this asap or provide a press release.
1 person says
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?One of my tweets from Monday (16/3) has disappeared. It still shows up in my client software and in search results, and the direct url works (http://twitter.com/scazon/statuses/13...), but it has vanished from my timeline; LoudTwitter hasn't picked it up, etc.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Some, though not all, of my tweets posted Monday night (UK 16/3), started disappearing around midnight UK. I didn't delete them and some were replied to while visible (so I'm not imagining it!). Can't find them now, though, on any application. I use TweetDeck on a Mac (as well as the Twitter web page, of course) and Twittelator, TwitterFon, Tweetie & Twinkle on an iPhone.
I’m confused
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Update 17/3: same story again last night. All of my tweets posted after 19.00 UK have disappeared from the All Friends timeline but are still available on Search, so apparently not deleted. Can't say if all the @ messages found their intended recipients but trying to contact them to find out. Always supposing they get the new messages....!
This is pretty damn irritating, Twitter! -
Inappropriate?I have been experimenting a bit and it seems to be ones that have links in that disappear. Is it overenthusiastic spam-filtering?
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At least one of my disappearing tweets contained a link. All of the disappearing tweets were @ replies, a couple were replying to two or three @s simultaneously. -
i had two @replies and one non-@reply without a link disappear. i re-posted the @replies and they stayed, but made the non-@reply disappear. -
Inappropriate?I've lost all my tweets from the past 24 hours. I also tweeted about it last night (around midnight GMT) when I first encountered the problem, and THOSE tweets have disappeared too! I didn't just post @replies and links, but normal unassociated tweets as well.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?This is happening to me and a lot of my friends as well. I had whole conversations @ replies and tweets just disappear. They show up in search, but not in the main timeline.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Have they disappeared, or just no longer show up in search.
None of my Tweets show up in search.
I’m wondering if Twitter has any customer service.
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Inappropriate?yes me too, I didn't have a link in my lost ones but it was in Korean.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I had about a half dozen disappear yesterday, including tweets that were replied to. They do not show up in search or in feed.
I’m confused
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Inappropriate?me too - I'm taking part in a contest on Twitter and my answers are disappearing meaning my answers are not submitted and potentially stopping me winning
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Next day. Problem still exists and no acknowledgment of the issue is forthcoming from Twitter.
I’m frustrated, verging on pissed off
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Inappropriate?should Twitter acknowledge anything except success?
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Inappropriate?Yup, I'm losing tweets, @ replies, AND some fairly important direct messages. This is not ok.
I’m pissed right off
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Inappropriate?I have same problem. Happened couple hours ago. Lost about 4 tweets.
I’m discouraged...
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Inappropriate?as someone else mentioned, they appear in search.twitter.com - and the link to them is valid. also, the "total update count" increases correctly when you add the posts, even after it disappears.
i erased my re-tweets, as i am guessing the tweets aren't really lost lost, just that they aren't showing up.
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Inappropriate?Mine aren't showing up either. I've had 4-5 posts disappear :|
I’m annoyed and confused
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Inappropriate?I complained about it last night. I checked just now and everything I tweeted yesterday is there again, in various order, I'm not so sure about it being in the right order or not but the main thing is they did reappear. I did read on the Twitter Update thing that they were working on some things and I got the impression that was why, but they didn't exclusively say they were still having these issues.
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Inappropriate?wow are they going to acknowledge this problem? it's getting ridiculous.
I’m about to leave twitter.
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Inappropriate?I just saw that I'm missing a couple tweets from a little earlier today. Twitter seems to be having lots of weird bugs lately. Also can't upload a new profile picture on twitter, it'll just give me a broken image link...but at least twitter's acknowledging that problem.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?i'm seeing lots of tweets go missing from my stream and others but i feel like most of them are showing up through tweetdeck.
I’m annoyed.
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Inappropriate?This happened to me yesterday evening too. I even re-tweeted, thinking my tweets were gone. However, FriendFeed captured all of my tweets, including the duplicate re-tweets. Oops.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?piling on—been losing @ replies all day long. lost both in web client and tweetie, so they appear to be gone gone gone.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?Not only have my tweets disappeared, but when I accepted a follow request it didn't acknowledge it, and kept saying I still had a request pending.
Also I can't change my background image. There's been an "error" for a couple of days now.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I lost 43 tweets yesterday and 28 today.
no kind of status update from twitter at all.
I’m disgusted
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Inappropriate?The past 48 hours have been a disappearing act on my account as well. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
I’m upset
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Inappropriate?Is there anyone who resides near twitter HQ in SF? They should really explain where they are at with this, even if it involves reccomending starting another account. I am surprised they do not have a phone number listed. Someone should stop by their office.
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Inappropriate?Same problem here. A number of tweets have disappeared over the past few days.
1 person says
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Inappropriate?Unlike Gleek, Tweetdeck is not finding my missing Tweets. Friendfeed and my blog feed plugin are.
I’m wondering why you'd use Get Satisfaction and then ignore your customers.
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I find that searching my own name in TweetDeck does reveal missing tweets, so at least we know that they are not deleted, just invisible to the usual timelines.
Can't understand why Twitter is not acting on this. It's becoming a pain. -
Inappropriate?I too have been experiencing this problem. I first started noticing it a couple of days ago. I've even twitted accordingly (http://twitter.com/veddegre). Of course, those same tweets have now disappeared as well. I've opened a support ticket with Twitter to investigate, but I really don't hold out too much hope as the last time I opened a support request it took them nearly three weeks for them to respond to me. This is getting very frustrating.
I’m frustrated
1 person says
this solves the problem
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Inappropriate?Twitter should put something on there status page about this problem, I don't mind glitches now and then but this has been 2 days of losing some tweets.
The annoying thing is that tweets are the main reason for twitter and they can't have problems with it and not at least keep us informed on how they are tackling the issue!!
I know twitter is free to use but they just got around $35million funding recently due the fact that they are growing so fast and at some point they are going to start generating money. They better put that $35million towards making sure they don't lose tweets.... I cant think of any other social networking site that loses the information that you create on your profile page!!!!
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"Twitter should put something on there status page about this problem.."
They just did: http://status.twitter.com/post/876256... -
1 person says
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....and it only took them two days to acknowledge the problem! -
...the first person to report the problem reported it 16 days ago. Not 2 days... -
Beg your pardon, sir. Just 2 days for me but over 2 weeks for someone else, alas. Well, that's the high speed, digital, super-highway for you! -
LOL! Maybe for you it was quick, but it had to accumulate to over 60 users just here and on the course of 2 weeks. That's a looong time in the internet! :)
I do recognize, however, that they have other issues to work on and that is probably what is delaying them. I'm glad they got the funding to deal with it. :) -
this has been an off on problem with twitter since I started using them from feb. I don't think it happens all over the network and seems to be a patchy problem. I can live with it as long as they keep us informed. -
Well, in spite of Twitter's claim to be 'making progress' <http://status.twitter.com/post/876256...> more than half of my tweets last night have also disappeared, just as they did the previous two evenings. Patchy is right. Seems to be an evening problem, evening here in the UK, anyway, so US peak time I suppose. Also seems to affect mainly tweets containing links, though not exclusively. Weird and tiresome. -
Inappropriate?So I'm not losing my mind! They ARE disappearing, for me as well. Not a great start on Twitter for me.....
I’m frusterated.
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Inappropriate?Not enjoying this in any way! lost 4 tweets this morning. who is responsible for working on this prob?????
I’m PO'ED
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Inappropriate?Happening to me too. I seem to have lost several tweets between my first update of the day and my most recent. The tweets do appear in search.twitter.com results and can be view by ID, like this http://twitter.com/niten/statuses/135...
As noted above, it appear tptb are aware of the problem.
http://status.twitter.com/post/876256...
I’m bemused.
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Inappropriate?Man, this is frustrating. I joined just a few days ago, and I'm already considering dropping it. Very disheartening to have to re-type your tweet and then watch that one disappear as well.
I’m losing faith.
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Inappropriate?I've lost most of my day again thus far (46 in total) and the last 7 hours of my @ replies. I don't see this getting any better. I wonder if this problem is bigger than they're letting on? may explain why it took them so many days to even admit there IS a problem.
I'm thinking about just stopping completely because at this point I have to search my own name to find my lost tweets and my replies. that's mighty mighty bootleg.
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that's a lot of missing tweets for you, at the moment I lose 3 to 4 tweets in past 24 hours and posted like 25. -
Inappropriate?Mine seem to only be disappearing on refresh or if i click away from my home then back to it. when I do this, my home reverts back to my last tweet from yesterday. is this what others are experiencing?
I’m extremely frustrated
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Inappropriate?Twitter says that the problem should be fixed since yesterday... I didn't have any problem yesterday, my updates started disappearing today :(
Hope this is fixed soon and that the updates aren't lost permanently
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Half of my tweets today evaporated. Interestingly, I'm updating FB via Twitter and they come through there. Some aren't lasting more than a minute or two in the twitspace, though.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?I'm also having this problem as of today. I've noticed a few replies to me missing, and a couple other tweets missing.
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?Still happening here, too. Twitter have at least described the problem as 'critical' in the latest Status Update and appear to be working on it.
The confusing thing is this: while I am aware of my own tweete disappearing from my own timeline display, I'm not certain that they are vanishing in general on other people's timelines, as in some cases I receive @ replies and responses to tweets I can no longer see on my own. -
Inappropriate?Yesterday 3 of my tweets disappeared. They don't appear in the search. But answers to them are still visible. One of them had an bit.ly link in it.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?just when I thought it was safe to wade in the water again. the twitter shark has eaten most of my posts today. wow. I'm ready to throw in the towel.
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Inappropriate?Nice to know I'm not alone. Good to see Twitter is paying some attention.
I’m irritated
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Inappropriate?I;ve lost 3 tweets in the last two days. Beginning to really get pissed off about it.
I’m p!ssed.
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Inappropriate?I had one disappear, it was @ another user, it reappeared a few weeks later.
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?ok, my tweets over the past 6 months (not that much, for me) just disappeared.
I’m frustrated
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All of my tweets from the last TWO YEARS are invisible as of about 8:00 last night. -
Inappropriate?I hope Twitter fixes this soon!
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Inappropriate?My standard user page only shows about 6-7 tweets...only the latest stuff since about 9pm last night, Eastern Time.
I’m annoyed
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Inappropriate?Two months (about 20) of my tweets disappeared. Compare the full list: http://david.dlma.com/lifestream/twit... and then all the missing March and April tweets at twitter: http://twitter.com/dblume C'mon Twitter, fix this!
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Has anyone seen a resolution to there disappearing tweets? Mine are still gone. Over 2 months worth.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Well touch wood Twitter at my end has been working good for past few weeks, had no missing tweets.
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?I have had missing tweets for about a week now. When they send me the name of the person following me in my email, I keep it in a seperate file and only have tweet followers in it, so I look at my folder and know exactly how many tweets I have following me. Over night, 80 went bye bye. It has to be hackers because I go to get on and sometimes the page is really messed up. Or maybe they are giving our tweets away to other people. Maybe the computer is messing up, but i htink it is hackers. I am grateful to Ashton though that he made this site, so even though we are bummed that something is going on, we need to remember that he did us all a favor by creating this site.
I’m sad
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@JoAnna What is the link you used to contact Evan? -
Inappropriate?I had over 2000+ tweets this morning and all of a sudden this afternoon when I logged on I only had 49 tweets.
I don't understand where they all went?!
Anyone have any idea?!
I’m sad.
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Inappropriate?I want that return my 2000 tweets, this can't be possible. I thought that i was the only one.
What's going on?
I’m furious
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Inappropriate?I too am missing tweets!! About 3,947 of them to be exact! What's going on with Twitter the last few days!? It's been Very glitchy.... @teagangsta
I’m kind of angry!
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Inappropriate?I am having this problem too, I had over 2000 tweets and I only have 7 now. It'd just be nice to know what's going on.
I’m sad and confused.
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Ah, I sent in a support request and it got fixed almost immediately. :) -
Hey Squee, Lucky you! I searched everywhere for a way to ask for support!!!! How did you do that? -
i lost 1k tweets too!!! -
And now they are back :) -
Inappropriate?me too! I had 3600 tweets (more or less) and yesterday I had 824!
I want my tweets! Please, TWITTER!
I’m sad
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Inappropriate?I notified Evan who started and is head of twitter. I have asked him to help several times now and he never replies back or cares. It is like he takes credit for creating twitter but than just forgets about it and doesn't care. Honestly, I think our tweets are being given away to celebs so they don't look bad. Or they are given away to the celebs friends. I even told Evan that I keep all my tweet emails showing how many I actually have to prove how many I have, but he just doesn't care.
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Maybe we should all get together and go and protest at some public place about someone stealing our tweets.
I’m frustrated
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Yeah, let's do that. Then let's remember that we're only supposed to care about important stuff. -
I'm trying to start a #tweetloss trending topic on twitter... Maybe you could all join -
I'm trying to start a #tweetloss trending topic on twitter... Maybe you could all join -
Inappropriate?So far, @chiniehdiaz seems to have the highest number of lost tweets - 29,048 lost, and @arleigh, dropped 21,000 tweets from 21,819 to 1,090 tweets!
We're trying to start the #tweetloss hash tag for that. Check out the discussion at Thoughtpick:
http://blog.thoughtpick.com/2009/08/d...
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?65000 twitts lost!
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Yes, and when someone joins me on twitter, I get an email saying they are now following me. Only when someone joins me, instead of adding it, they take it away. We did it just to see what would happen. Evan is responsible for this. I guarantee you if he was sued, he would get the problem fixed right away. We need someone inside to investigate and see who they are giving them too. I bet money on it, that they are giving our tweets to their friends. -
Inappropriate?This is a huge deal. I've (@kichigai) have lost over 8,000 tweets, and my friend (@godisvoid) has lost about 3,000. Honestly!
I’m disappointed
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Inappropriate?All my tweets before August 1 are gone. (@epaga) should have about 2300 tweets but have 150.
What sucks the most is that the Twitter issue says "Fixed" - seriously, all it would take is a quick update of that page back to "Open" and I'd be a lot less ticked off.
I’m frustrated
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They don't care, they only care if it happens to them or their friends. My guess is they are stealing the tweets from us and giving them to their friends. -
Inappropriate?It seems a big problem. I'v (@darkmoming) lost over 8000 tweets too.
I’m disappointed
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Evan needs to get sued for not taking care of the problem. I heard that in fact, he and others are responsible for our tweets being stolen and given to celebrities or other people they know that want tweets. -
so what corp. are you part of in sausalito? -
Inappropriate?I made a request in the actual twitter support area, and all my tweets came back. I can assure you that none of my tweets were manhandled, abused or given to friends of Evan. The idea that our tweets are being stolen and given to celebrities is just moronic, as if there is some sort of black market for tweets.
I’m happy
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How did you make a request in actual twitter support area?
As I don't know how I can make a request in http://help.twitter.com/portal after i logged in ... -
@darkmorning: sorry I didn't see your question till now. To actually make a request in the support area: (they don't make it very obvious for some reason!) From your twitter page (you must be logged in) Click the "Help" link at the top of the page. You should be at the help.twitter.com/home page. Log in AGAIN (upper right corner of the page.) Scroll down to the end of the section titled "Find people on Twitter: Twitter Search!" and you will see "Twitter, Help! Did something go wrong? Let us know!" (it's right ABOVE the next section "The Official Twitter Text Commands". Click "Let us know" and you will be taken to the Submit a request for assistance page. I don't know why this link is buried that way, making it hard for people to figure out how to submit a request, it should be at the top and large, not very helpful! Hope that helps! -
Inappropriate?I made it directly to Evan the creator of twitter.
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Inappropriate?Lukester can fix this...I @replied him about it, and he brought the tweets back a few days later. (It probably would have been sooner were it not the US Labor Day weekend at the time.)
I’m thankful
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Are you saying to tweet @Lukester and tell him of the problem or what? Trying to contact these ppl is like pulling hen's teeth. And it's not fair to the patrons. Who or what is Lukester. Thx for replying. -
BTW, do you get what my problem is. If I sent you a tweet from I would see it iin my list of tweets but when I went to your page there would be no tweet to you from me. I don't see any of my tweets on the page of the ppl I sent them to. I sent a TV guy about 10 tweets yesterday and none of them are on his page. Argghhhh! -
Maxie: Lukester is with Twitter support, and several people have tweeted him about the original problem we discussed here and gotten him to fix it.
Your problem sounds like something different from what we had, but it can't hurt to ask Lukester about it. -
Inappropriate?@AmbitiousEnergy, Again, is this just a tweet or is there a separate and direct link that you guys used to Lukester?.
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It's just a tweet, like any other. -
Inappropriate?@AmbitiousEnergy, Oh okay, well I sent a tweet, my problem now is whether or not he'll be able to see it. I'm gonna follow him and see if it's on his page.
Thank you :) -
I'm truly happy for all of you, hopefully soon I'll be able to say the same thing. I feel as though I'm just wasting my time with these tweets. Last night I sent An ABC Corr. some facts about someone he wanted to give an honor and all my qualifications of this young man went to nought. I felt of no use to David Archuleta at all. Thank goodness Donvan gave David the award. TWITTER, WHY AREN'T MY TWEETS GOING TO THEIR DESTINATIONS? :( -
I am going to notify the State Attorney Generals office and ask him to investigate this fraud that is going on. -
Inappropriate?My tweets just disappear. The update button doesn't even seem to work.
I've gone to some of my followers pages and nothing is getting through.
Any ideas? I personally don't have time to put up with things that don't do as they are supposed to.
I’m frustrated
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Look twitter is responsible for allocating our tweets to us. When someone joins us they send us an email. If they are allocating our tweets to us, than they are stealing from us. I believe twitter is giving our tweets away to someone else. They cater to the celebs, and their friends and they give them everyones tweets. No one is stealing them, twitter is giving them to other people and that is illegal. Actually they might actually be able to be prosecuted. This whole website is a scam. -
Inappropriate?yes, and the owner Evan is not doing anything about it either.
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Inappropriate?Sorry for repeating this, but I DID get my tweets back, not by submitting issues to THIS site, or by sending tweets to Evan or Lukester, but by submitting an actual request in the support area. If you, like many others are unable to figure out how to submit a request, see below:
To make a request in the support area: (they don't make it very obvious for some reason!) From your twitter page (you must be logged in) Click the "Help" link at the top of the page.
You should be at the help.twitter.com/home page. Log in AGAIN (upper right corner of the page.)
Scroll down to the end of the section titled "Find people on Twitter: Twitter Search!" and you will see "Twitter, Help! Did something go wrong? Let us know!" (it's right ABOVE the next section "The Official Twitter Text Commands".
Click "Let us know" and you will be taken to the Submit a request for assistance page.
I’m happy
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i click in let us know and it just take me to the help home. no rquest page at all!!! -
Inappropriate?@daniela did you make sure you logged in again, on each page that has a login link? I didn't the first time and that kept me from getting to the Submit a request for assistance page. It should be easier to submit an issue than it is, such a pain!
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yes, i login to the help page, my user name appears in the top of the page, but every time i click in let us know, it takes me to the help home page i says welcome back daniela gamez
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Inappropriate?I just tried it as well, and it's not you, it's not working!!
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