As The Verge reports, users are reporting that tweets they’ve mass-deleted are reappearing on their profiles.
James Vincent, a senior reporter at The Verge, wrote that earlier this month, he deleted all of his tweets, just under 5,000 of them, but can now see that Twitter has restored some of the old re-tweets. .
“On May 8th, I deleted my tweets (I know the date because I tweeted about it). But this morning when I checked my timeline, Twitter restored some old re-tweets without warning This is another example of Twitter’s unpredictable infrastructure,” he said in a tweet.
Richard Morrell, open-source developer and former CTO/Chairman of Smoothwall, shared the same problem on Mastodon.
“Last November, I deleted all my tweets. Every single one. Then I ran Redact and deleted all my likes, my media and retweets. 38k tweets were gone. Woke up today to Twitter restoring 34k of them , who probably brought back a server farm,” he posted.
As ZDNet reports, Morel said that so far more than 400 people have told him that they too have seen their deleted messages restored.
He estimated that more than a million previously deleted tweets have reappeared with only people in his circles.
Specifically, people report that they are seeing deleted tweets from November 2022 and earlier reappearing.
Morel said, “I’m pretty sure they restored the cold storage because all the restored tweets have date-time characteristics.”
Twitter has yet to issue an explanation for such claims.
According to a former Twitter site reliability engineer, “It sounds a lot like they moved a bunch of servers between datacenters and didn’t properly adjust the topology before putting them back into the network, thereby regenerating old data.” Can go.”