From the “you can’t make this stuff up department” comes news via The Verge that deleted Tweets are reappearing for reasons that people do not understand:
Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. I know the exact day because I tweeted about it.
This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets; interactions I know I scrubbed from my profile. Those re-tweets were gone. I remember surveying my bare timeline with satisfaction before thinking, “great, time to draw attention to myself.” But now they’re back. You can see them by scrolling down my timeline past May 8th, with even more appearing if you select “tweets with replies.”
And:
I’m not the only one to notice deleted tweets resurfacing recently. I only checked my timeline after seeing a post on Mastodon (via Ryan Broderick’s newsletter) in which a user complained on May 17th that 34,000 of his deleted tweets had been restored.
“Last November I deleted all my Tweets. Every single one. I then ran Redact and deleted all my likes, my media and retweets,” tooted open-source developer Dick Morrell. “Woke up today to find 34k of them restored.by [sic] Twitter who presumably brought a server farm back up. Now re deleting. This shows why you should NOT be using Twitter, ever.”
Why is this happening? Who knows? But it is troubling as it illustrates that what gets deleted on Twitter doesn’t actually get deleted. Which means that you could be open to all sorts of trouble if you deleted Tweets on Twitter. For example a potential employer can find your Tweets where you rage Tweeted, and then deleted the Tweets once you cooled down. Or a repressive government might find Tweets that they don’t like because it doesn’t fit within their political view and expose you to danger for example.
The bottom line is this: This is bad. This illustrates how Elon Musk has seriously damaged Twitter. And it should serve as big reason for you to abandon the platform. Though you have to wonder if the platform will let you disappear based on this news.
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Twitter Seems To Be Restoring Deleted Tweets… WTF?
From the “you can’t make this stuff up department” comes news via The Verge that deleted Tweets are reappearing for reasons that people do not understand:
Earlier this year on the 8th of May I deleted all my tweets, just under 5,000 of them. I know the exact day because I tweeted about it.
This morning, though, I discovered that Twitter has restored a handful of my old re-tweets; interactions I know I scrubbed from my profile. Those re-tweets were gone. I remember surveying my bare timeline with satisfaction before thinking, “great, time to draw attention to myself.” But now they’re back. You can see them by scrolling down my timeline past May 8th, with even more appearing if you select “tweets with replies.”
And:
I’m not the only one to notice deleted tweets resurfacing recently. I only checked my timeline after seeing a post on Mastodon (via Ryan Broderick’s newsletter) in which a user complained on May 17th that 34,000 of his deleted tweets had been restored.
“Last November I deleted all my Tweets. Every single one. I then ran Redact and deleted all my likes, my media and retweets,” tooted open-source developer Dick Morrell. “Woke up today to find 34k of them restored.by [sic] Twitter who presumably brought a server farm back up. Now re deleting. This shows why you should NOT be using Twitter, ever.”
Why is this happening? Who knows? But it is troubling as it illustrates that what gets deleted on Twitter doesn’t actually get deleted. Which means that you could be open to all sorts of trouble if you deleted Tweets on Twitter. For example a potential employer can find your Tweets where you rage Tweeted, and then deleted the Tweets once you cooled down. Or a repressive government might find Tweets that they don’t like because it doesn’t fit within their political view and expose you to danger for example.
The bottom line is this: This is bad. This illustrates how Elon Musk has seriously damaged Twitter. And it should serve as big reason for you to abandon the platform. Though you have to wonder if the platform will let you disappear based on this news.
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