Disappearing Tweets!

I had sent out a tweet saying that some of my tweets disappeared. And that tweet has also disappeared.

This just seemed to be happening to me today... hacked or corrupt database?

It started happening to me today, I guess, I've never noticed it before...

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 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.

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.

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 have been experimenting a bit and it seems to be ones that have links in that disappear. Is it overenthusiastic spam-filtering?

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.

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.

Have they disappeared, or just no longer show up in search.

None of my Tweets show up in search.

yes me too, I didn't have a link in my lost ones but it was in Korean.

I had about a half dozen disappear yesterday, including tweets that were replied to. They do not show up in search or in feed.

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

Next day. Problem still exists and no acknowledgment of the issue is forthcoming from Twitter.

should Twitter acknowledge anything except success?

Yup, I'm losing tweets, @ replies, AND some fairly important direct messages. This is not ok.

I have same problem. Happened couple hours ago. Lost about 4 tweets.

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.

Mine aren't showing up either. I've had 4-5 posts disappear :|

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.

wow are they going to acknowledge this problem? it's getting ridiculous.

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 lost a whole convo - I thought i was loosing it!

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.

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.

piling on—been losing @ replies all day long. lost both in web client and tweetie, so they appear to be gone gone gone.

Add me to the list

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 lost 43 tweets yesterday and 28 today.

no kind of status update from twitter at all.

The past 48 hours have been a disappearing act on my account as well. PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!

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.

Same problem here. A number of tweets have disappeared over the past few days.

Have got the same problem.. this happened to be yesterday

Unlike Gleek, Tweetdeck is not finding my missing Tweets. Friendfeed and my blog feed plugin are.

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.

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!!!!

Yeah my faith in Twitter is restored!!

So I'm not losing my mind! They ARE disappearing, for me as well. Not a great start on Twitter for me.....

Not enjoying this in any way! lost 4 tweets this morning. who is responsible for working on this prob?????

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...

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'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.

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?

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

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 also having this problem as of today. I've noticed a few replies to me missing, and a couple other tweets missing.

Still happening.

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.

http://status.twitter.com/post/880449...

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.

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.

Nice to know I'm not alone. Good to see Twitter is paying some attention.

I;ve lost 3 tweets in the last two days. Beginning to really get pissed off about it.

I had one disappear, it was @ another user, it reappeared a few weeks later.

ok, my tweets over the past 6 months (not that much, for me) just disappeared.

I hope Twitter fixes this soon!

Yup, my tweets for the last month just disappeared. What gives?

My standard user page only shows about 6-7 tweets...only the latest stuff since about 9pm last night, Eastern Time.

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!

Has anyone seen a resolution to there disappearing tweets? Mine are still gone. Over 2 months worth.

Well touch wood Twitter at my end has been working good for past few weeks, had no missing tweets.

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 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 missing 2 years worth of tweets. Just...gone. Whats going on?!

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 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 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 had more than 2,300 and now I have 130. :( WTF?!

i just lost about 5,500 tweets and now have only 215
where'd they go?

I have lost about 7000 tweets :(

me too! I had 3600 tweets (more or less) and yesterday I had 824!
I want my tweets! Please, TWITTER!

I am now showing 163 tweets & I thought I had at least 7000! Help!

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.

Maybe we should all get together and go and protest at some public place about someone stealing our tweets.

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...

65000 twitts lost!

10,000+ tweets lost!!

Is twitter doing something?

:(

i was up to 3.500, but now... only 157 updates.
argh

All my @replies since Aug 23rd have disappeared. What's going on?

This is a huge deal. I've (@kichigai) have lost over 8,000 tweets, and my friend (@godisvoid) has lost about 3,000. Honestly!

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.

It seems a big problem. I'v (@darkmoming) lost over 8000 tweets too.

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 made it directly to Evan the creator of twitter.

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.)

@AmbitiousEnergy, Again, is this just a tweet or is there a separate and direct link that you guys used to Lukester?.

@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 GOT MY TWEETS BACK!

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.

yes, and the owner Evan is not doing anything about it either.

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.

@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!

I just tried it as well, and it's not you, it's not working!!